Scott Long wrote: > Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > >> Jon Noack wrote: >> >>> On 1/29/2004 6:02 AM, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: >>> >>>> I found out that booting with "Safe mode" (I knew there should be >>>> some use for it :-)) allows me to complete the process and get to >>>> sysinstall, in both 5.2-RELEASE & the -current snapshot from 24/1. >>>> But I tried to do the same from the loader prompt, to no avail. I >>>> used the following and then "boot" or "boot -v" but every attempt >>>> resulted in the traditional freeze. >>>> >>>> unset acpi_load >>>> set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 >>>> set loader.acpi_disabled_by_user=1 >>>> set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 >>>> set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 >>>> set hw.ata.wc=0 >>>> set hw.eisa_slots=0 >>>> >>>> From what I can tell from the beastie.4th file, that is all that >>>> should be needed. Am I missing something? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> You missed disabling apic: >>> set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 >> >> >> >> Bingo! >> But I still can't see how it is being set via the loader's "Safe mode" >> option. Granted, my forth skills are lacking, but an inquiring mind >> needs to know :-) >> >> Thanks, > > > > Look for this segment in beastie.4th: > > > dup bootsafekey _at_ = if > s" arch-i386" environment? if > s" acpi_load" unsetenv > s" 1" s" hint.acpi.0.disabled" setenv > s" 1" s" loader.acpi_disabled_by_user" setenv > ----> s" 1" s" hint.apic.0.disabled" setenv > then > s" 0" s" hw.ata.ata_dma" setenv > s" 0" s" hw.ata.atapi_dma" setenv > s" 0" s" hw.ata.wc" setenv > s" 0" s" hw.eisa_slots" setenv > 0 boot > then Darn, I was grepping through rev. 1.7. Thanks! -- Panagiotis Astithas Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD Network Management Center National Technical University of Athens, GreeceReceived on Mon Feb 02 2004 - 03:51:44 UTC
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