Compaq desktop does not work without ACPI

[Oleg Polyakov]

>From: Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com>
>
>On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Oleg Polyakov wrote:
>
> > I upgraded old Compaq Despro EP from 5.1-Release to Current as of Aug
> > 27th (cvsupped) and last line I see after boot is "Mounting root from
> > ufs:/dev/ad0s1a". The box just can't go past this point. boot -v gives
> > one more line "start_init: trying /sbin/init". It happened with both
> > generic and myself configured kernels.
>
>That sounds like your hints file is missing the required syscons entries.
>Did you just copy GENERIC.hints to /boot/device.hints?

Yes, it's there. It looks like it was installed while installing 
5.1-Release.
It's the same file as GENERIC.hints. device.hints got loaded and I can see
in kenv output same hint entries as in device.hints.

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