I have read the reports other have send. Just did not have found a way to solve the problem that FreeBSD shut ofs the computer during boot. I tried to switch to the console and typed disable-module /boot/kernel/acpi.ko but while booting one sees that this module is still loaded. I checked the BIOS and well you might believe it or not, there's not option to switch of acpi, in fact you can not really do anything useful with BIOS setting me seems. I then tried to do the following unload boot but again acpi is tried to get loaded. I found that one has to put some extra line in device.hints. Just that does not work if you just have a CD. So what can I and probably other do to simply deactivate the ACPI stuff. Regards Friedrich
small addition I found out how to disable acpi. I know have done the following: started the system, on the first chance to choose something in the screen Welcome to FreeBSD I tped in 6 to get to the boot loader it seems to that time /boot/device.hints has been read so one can get the values and/or set them Ok, I typed set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" then unload then boot durign /boot/kernel/kernel the computer is simply switched of. That's it Regards Friedrich
On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:26:33 +0200 Friedrich Dominicus <frido@q-software-solutions.de> wrote:> I have read the reports other have send. Just did not have found a way > to solve the problem that FreeBSD shut ofs the computer during boot.[...] I have a HP nx9105 which, at this time, runs 5.4-STABLE. Installed 5.4-RC4, brought it to RELENG_5, patched DSDT. Now, after all the "mess", it is very FreeBSD friendly :) http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/ was the perfect starting point for me. Compaq Presario R3000 Series has basically the same hardware.> I found that one has to put some extra line in device.hints. Just that > does not work if you just have a CD.There is an extra hint to pass at boot time: hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9"> So what can I and probably other do to simply deactivate the ACPI > stuff.You also must disabled ACPI at install time, or else you'll be left without keybord. -- Adrian Pircalabu Public KeyID = 0x04329F5E -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/
Well the problem is I do not know why I had got to the sysinstall menu however the keyboard simply does not work. So dead end. I think I know what dmesg does (I assume it's the same on FreeBSD as on sorry Linux) but if the kernel halts you won't be able to run anything. I wish I had a bit more time on my hands, but I'm a bit under pressure... So could you explain the settings to me a bit? Regards Friedrich