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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:53:32 -0400
From:      Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: acpi patch for dell laptop?
Message-ID:  <bd748v$mdu$1@main.gmane.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0306222307490.79545-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20030623134240.20258.qmail@web11401.mail.yahoo.com> <20030623155230.514236dc.ltning@anduin.net>

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Eirik Oeverby wrote:

[...]


> And with ACPI disabled, the machine refuses totally to
> boot, it hangs at 'Mounting root from ...'. If I undock the machine, I
> can boot with and without ACPI, with the latter option being the only
> usable (stable) mode.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried setting

hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1

in your /boot/device.hints file? I've found that this option fixes many
unbootable laptops - especially thinkpads.

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