Re: Compaq desktop does not work without ACPI

From: Oleg Polyakov <opolyakov_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:13:58 -0700
>From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
>
>On Tue, 2 Sep 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?
> >
> > Yes, it's there. It looks like it was installed while installing
> > 5.1-Release.
> > It's the same file as GENERIC.hints. device.hints got loaded and I can 
>see
> > in kenv output same hint entries as in device.hints.
>
>Hm, ATAng went in since 5.1-R, so I wonder if it is having issues reading
>from the disk then. How long have you let it sit trying to start init?
>Does it give random disk errors?

I let it try to start for about an hour three or four times...
It just sits and does not show anything at all.
If booted with ACPI there are no disk errors.

>--
>Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
>dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
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Received on Wed Sep 03 2003 - 12:14:07 UTC

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