Satellite Pro 6100 Strange Behaviour

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 09:48 pm, Darryl Barlow wrote:
> I recently reinstalled FreeBSD 5.2 Release.  On
> previous installation I had needed to set
> enable_io_modes=0 both to install from CD and then to
> boot the installed system.  However, this time it
> installed flawlessly and then booted the system
> without this option.  However, the next day FreeBSD
> failed to boot, hanging at the usual AGP bridge line.
> Mystified, I booted from the install CD with no
> problems and without setting io_modes=0.  Following
> this succesfull boot from CD FreeBSD also booted from
> the harddisk with no problems.  The next day
> (yesterday) I can't boot the installed version at all.
>  Setting io_modes=o gets me past the AGP bridge hang,
> only to find that the boot then hangs on what looks
> like loading the keyboard driver or at least around
> that point.  I don't currently have access to the
> machine to post the actual log.
>
> Any ideas on this somewhat strange problem woudl be
> appreciated.

Try disabling ACPI.

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