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Date:      Fri, 01 Oct 2004 09:24:29 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ACPI Flakiness / Loader
Message-ID:  <xzp4qle3npu.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <61D1B42DE744CC8F770302FB@[192.168.1.16]> (Jason C. Wells's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:40:35 -0700")
References:  <61D1B42DE744CC8F770302FB@[192.168.1.16]>

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"Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> writes:
> It's been a couple years since I have been active on the lists.  I
> have been itching to get OpenAFS running on FreeBSD so I dove in with
> 5.2.1.  I have never had a fresh binary install of FreeBSD in the
> -stable or -current branch fail to boot until just now.

I hope you realize that 5.2.1 is a nine months old development
preview.

> My request is this.  Please don't enable flaky functionality by
> default. ACPI is openly stated as flaky and not uniformly implemented
> in the handbook.

If only things were so simple!  The plain fact is that most computers
manufactured today, especially laptops and high-end servers, won't
work properly without ACPI.

As for your troubles with disabling ACPI: the procedure to do so is
clearly described in the documentation, and on a stock 5.2.1 install,
it's as simple as pressing 2 at the boot menu.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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