From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 16 23:46:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9023F16A4CF for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:46:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.dada.it (mail2.dada.it [195.110.100.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6FEB43D41 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:46:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from riccardo@torrini.org) Received: (qmail 23204 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2004 23:46:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO silos.torrini.home) (195.110.114.101) by mail.dada.it with SMTP; 16 Aug 2004 23:46:50 -0000 Received: from trudy.torrini.home (trudy.torrini.home [192.168.22.3]) by silos.torrini.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0B0A91B; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:46:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by trudy.torrini.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4FCD01F36; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:46:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:46:52 +0200 From: Riccardo Torrini To: Daniel Eriksson Message-ID: <20040816234652.GB651@trudy.torrini.home> References: <41203316.90801@root.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: acpi@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabled known-bad BIOS revisions X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:46:55 -0000 On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:15:46PM +0200, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Try upgrading your BIOS to the latest beta version. I'm running a > P2B-DS with ACPI enabled without any problems, using the 1014.003 > bios available here: > ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Slot_I/INTEL_Chipset/i440BX/P2B-DS/ Thanks. Really a good pointer. It solves. Now my machine boots without touching device.hint :) Only a side note: from my home netblock (both my static IP and proxy of my ISP) it is unavailable (unable to login) but from work I downloaded both BIOS and flash utility without problems. Both range are from Italy. Previous version 1014.beta001a fail with kernel after late june... -- Riccardo. ( http://www.GUFI.org/~vic/ )