ACPI trouble with EPIA-M

[Nate Lawson]

> I have a VIA EPIA-M 10000 board which works mostly when I disable
> ACPI in the bios. Unfortunately the parallel port is controlled by
> some Super-IO chip and is not recognized during boot. The same holds
> true for serial ports and the floppy controller.
>
> When I enable ACPI in the bios the machine boots normally and
> recognizes the parallel port BUT stops after displaying the hd/cdrom
> identification , at the point where it would normally start init
> (before the "Mounting root from ..." is displayed).
>
> At this point it just stops. I can break into DDB but nothing
> else...

Type "tr" at the DDB prompt to get a trace of what is hanging.

-Nate