freebsd on a newer pc

[Jonathan Horne]

>
> On Jun 16, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote:
>>
>> well, i figured out that if at the boot selection screen, if i choose
>> option 2 "boot with acpi enabled", i can then give 'shutdown -p
>> now' and
>> the system will then power off properly. easy enough...
>>
>> but how do i set option 2 as my default boot selection?  i dont see
>> anything about this in the handbook.
>
>
> My experience has been that once you boot that way once it becomes
> the default.  Play around with it
>
> Chad
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i dont think thats the behavior im getting.  when i hit 2 to boot:

athena# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    3 0xc0400000 6ab778   kernel
 2    1 0xc0aac000 59960    acpi.ko
athena# uname -a
FreeBSD athena.int.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 16
20:48:52 CDT 2006    
root at athena.int.dfwlp.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHENA  i386

and when i dont:
athena# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    1 0xc0400000 6ab778   kernel

when i want to boot the acpi support, i hit 2.  is that the proper way, or
is there some other way that resets this mode as default?

thanks,
jonathan