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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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