ACPI was the culprit

[Eirik Nygaard]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:01:20PM -0600, Dave Leimbach wrote:
> So for FreeBSD 5.2.1 at least ACPI was the reason I couldn't boot the
> installer CD.  Choosing either a "Safe Mode" or "Disable ACPI" boot 
> worked.
> 
> Is there a way to disable this at boot time in DragonFly as well by 
> interrupting the loader process?
> 

ACPI in DragonFly can not be compiled as a module, so you must remove it
from your kernel config file and recompile your kernel. I was experiensing
random hardlocks with ACPI on my laptop, which seems to have stoped now.
Everything seems pretty random for me at the moment, I have not been able
to track it down yet.

-- 
Eirik Nygaard
eirikn at xxxxxxxxxxxx    Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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