Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:03:22 -0800 (PST) From: Atle Veka <atlev@flyingcroc.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: Where is the blacklist referenced on the install disks? Message-ID: <20050211130221.M12600@fincher.users.accretive-networks.net> In-Reply-To: <20050211205950.GA68406@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050211122205.X12600@fincher.users.accretive-networks.net> <20050211205950.GA68406@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said: > > ASUS p2b-d motherboards are blacklisted on 5.3-RELEASE and refuse to > > install. Where is this blacklist located, I need to manually remove > > that block? > > > > The ASUS p2b-d motherboards are quite common, we have probably 100 or > > so left of them and have at one point had over 400. Seems really > > strange to me to exclude a popular motherboard on acpi issues... > > The blacklist is on BIOS versions that have broken ACPI support. All > it does it disable the ACPI module. Your system should still boot > fine without it. This is during a new install and after loading all floppies it actually halts the boot process and notifies of an automatic reboot [in 15 seconds]. Atle
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