Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:42:40 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd on a newer pc Message-ID: <8059E230-1203-47F4-B173-00650DC6078E@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <55254.24.1.139.244.1150514984.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> References: <44125.167.246.36.14.1150464410.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <53137.24.1.139.244.1150499368.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <8F95D008-1650-4EA1-AEBB-F2C6863BCC07@shire.net> <55254.24.1.139.244.1150514984.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com>
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On Jun 16, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: >> >> On Jun 16, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: >>> >>> well, i figured out that if at the boot selection screen, if i >>> choose >>> option 2 "boot with acpi enabled", i can then give 'shutdown -p >>> now' and >>> the system will then power off properly. easy enough... >>> >>> but how do i set option 2 as my default boot selection? i dont see >>> anything about this in the handbook. >> >> >> My experience has been that once you boot that way once it becomes >> the default. Play around with it >> > > i dont think thats the behavior im getting. when i hit 2 to boot: It may depend on how known your MB is to support acpi. On my machines to boot default with acpi and if I tell it not to boot with acpi at boot, when I reboot that is now the default. I am not an expert on this. Maybe your MB is a "known" bad acpi one? --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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