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Date:      Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:40:31 +0800
From:      Alastair Hogge <agh@coolrhaug.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        kochetkov.andrew@gmail.com, Randy Chou <randychou@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel DP45SG motherboard problem (amd64)
Message-ID:  <201002240640.31039.agh@coolrhaug.com>
In-Reply-To: <201002231114.00225.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201002212231.12018.agh@coolrhaug.com> <201002232151.04595.agh@coolrhaug.com> <201002231114.00225.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Wed February 24 2010 00:14:00 John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 February 2010 8:51:04 am Alastair Hogge wrote:
> > > > Hello John,
> > > >
> > > > In regards to an old email thread:
> > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2009-
> > >
> > > June/thread.html#5887
> > >
> > > > I've attached the i386 dmesg & "mptable device" from a 9.0-CURRENT
> > > > -r204168 system which still fails on booting an amd64 CD.
> > >
> > > You need to build a custom amd64 kernel which includes "device mptable"
> > > and use that.  You may need to set 'hint.acpi.0.disabled=1' as well to
> > > force ACPI to be disabled.
> >
> > OK, I've cross built an amd64 system and installed it on a spare HDD.
> > Once it booted I ran "mptable -verbose -dmesg -grope" Here is the output:
> 
> It appears that the new kernel works, yes? 
Yes

> That should at least get you a
> working system now. 
Pretty exciting, however, it looks like that booting from an installation
CD is still problematic.

> I have no idea why the system does not provide ACPI
> tables.  Is there a BIOS option to enable/disable ACPI perhaps?
I can't find anything .

Thanks



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