Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:34:17 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Machine refuses to boot with ACPI enabled by default Message-ID: <420FB9C9.8010106@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20041122160803.GA16224@athena.oekb.co.at> References: <20041122160803.GA16224@athena.oekb.co.at>
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Ewald Jenisch wrote: > I've got a strange problem wrt. ACPI on one of my boxes under FreeBSD > 5.3: The box comes up with ACPI *disabled* by default. > > Only by manually selecting the menu option that says "Boot with ACPI > enabled" can I make the box run ACPI which is kinda annoying when > e.g. I remotely reboot the box - after the reboot it comes up without > ACPI and as a consequence SMP turned off. > > To cross check that it's not a config issue I've "diffed" the files in > /boot between the machine in question and another one that runs with > ACPI enabled by default - absolutely no differences. One box > (different hardware) runs with ACPI, this one runs with ACPI disabled > by default. Sorry about the long reply time. > So my questions are: > > 1) How can I make this box boot with ACPI enabled by default? In your /boot/loader.conf, set: hint.acpi.0.disabled="0" > 2) Why does this box come up without ACPI by default after all? I checked the quirks table and found nothing that should match your machine. Can you send a full dmesg of booting when acpi is automatically disabled? There's usually a quirk message printed if this is the case. -- Nate
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