5.3-RELEASE: Where is the blacklist referenced on the install disks?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Feb 11 20:59:58 GMT 2005


In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said:
> ASUS p2b-d motherboards are blacklisted on 5.3-RELEASE and refuse to
> install. Where is this blacklist located, I need to manually remove
> that block?
> 
> The ASUS p2b-d motherboards are quite common, we have probably 100 or
> so left of them and have at one point had over 400. Seems really
> strange to me to exclude a popular motherboard on acpi issues...

The blacklist is on BIOS versions that have broken ACPI support.  All
it does it disable the ACPI module.  Your system should still boot
fine without it.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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