Re: 5.2 is dangerous to drive

Dear Arjan,

    Thank you for your advice, which has given me hope, but how to I
implement it?

Here is my guess for what to edit into the kernel config file:

nodevice apic
nodevice smp

    Is this correct?  I really don't see any lines about apic
anywhere in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/

[But I am on 5.1 now.  Does something about apic appear in 5.2?]

    I surely had no SMP enabled, anyway, since I only have one processor.
I do have an NVIDIA nForce2 series motherboard, an ASUS A7N8X, so
you perceived that correctly.

    Why should I want to get ACPI running again?

    How can I get "without ACPI" to be the default boot behaviour?
Would that be to edit something in loader.conf?

    Thanks for any more advice,

                 - Wayne

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:34:50PM +0100, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2004 17:57, Wayne Barnes wrote:
> > Dear Level 5ers,
> >
> >    I got a 5.2.1 CD in the mail, so I thought I should upgrade
> > from my older 5.0-CURRENT which had been working very well
> > for months.
> >
> >    Big mistake.
> 
> > ...
> 
> Not that big a mistake. Sounds like you have an nforce2-board. If you search 
> the archives, you'll find that you can install 5.2 (or 5.2.1) on this board 
> by disabling ACPI during the install (option 2 in the boot menu). Once you're 
> up and running, build a kernel without apic and smp (that's apic, not ACPI) 
> to get ACPI support working again.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Arjan

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Wayne M Barnes
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