6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 14 April 2007 18:55, Andrei Kolu wrote:
> Press any key to gain boot prompt while system is loading- look at loader
> messages.
> From appeared boot prompt type: boot -s

I was under the impression that if you set the autoboot delay to 0 (or -1) 
then you won't be able to get to the loader prompt at all.

I must admit I haven't tested it though.
> > phase of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :)
>
> I got almost identical board P8SCi and have no problems running FreeBSD
> 6.1, 6.2, 7-CURRENT. Maybe you should look at supermicro site and upgrade
> bios. I think this is ACPI problem. You can disable ACPI temporarily at the
> boot loader prompt by issueing "unset acpi_load" if you are having problems
> booting an ACPI enabled machine.

The loader doesn't use ACPI so while it may be related to ACPI the command you 
suggest won't have an effect.

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