Re: Compaq desktop does not work without ACPI

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:18:26 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Oleg Polyakov wrote:

> I upgraded old Compaq Despro EP from 5.1-Release to Current as of Aug
> 27th (cvsupped) and last line I see after boot is "Mounting root from
> ufs:/dev/ad0s1a". The box just can't go past this point. boot -v gives
> one more line "start_init: trying /sbin/init". It happened with both
> generic and myself configured kernels.

That sounds like your hints file is missing the required syscons entries.
Did you just copy GENERIC.hints to /boot/device.hints?

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Received on Sun Aug 31 2003 - 10:18:27 UTC

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