acpi and boot problem

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Dec 1 06:36:47 PST 2006


leo fante <leofante at gawab.com> writes:

> Hi
> I've installed freebsd 6.1 on an old pc on which I've configured several
> services. Everything worked fine since last week when the motherboard died.
> I've replaced the mobo and found that now the acpi could work (with the old motherboard
> the installation disabled the acpi at boot since the mainboard was blacklisted).
>
> Since the old mobo was blacklisted the options on the menu were
> 1 default
> 2 boot with acpi
>
> Now I would like to have the acpi enabled by default at boot time on the beastie menu.
> 1 default
> 2 boot without acpi
>
> reading the man of loader.conf I've added hint.acpi.0.disabled="0"
> and now the pc boots with with acpi enabled but without having
> the correct options in the boot menu.
>
> How I could fix the menu?

>From a quick look at /boot/beastie.4th, I think that setting acpi_load
in your loader.conf will do the job.


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