On 28-Sep-01 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: >: > > > I only found this out today when my Dell inspiron7500 >: > > > refused to boot past the ACPI message.. >: > > > Surprised me a bit as Mike has one of these. >: > > >: > > There's a well-documented and necessary hack to work on these >: > > machines; the actual nature of the problem still escapes me (debugging >: > > it is very time-consuming). >: > > >: > > debug.acpi.avoid="_SB_.PCI0.PX40.SIO_" >: > > >: > > in /boot/device.hints. >: > >: > that would be in loader.conf right? >: >: It'd probably work there as well, but I've always done it in >: device.hints. > > It does work in loader.conf...
Both files are parsed identically by the boot-conf "function". You could stick your hints in loader.conf if you wanted to, or stick 'console="comconsole' in device.hints if you wanted to. Their content is determined more by their purpose. I.e., device hints in device.hints, and loader tweaks in loader.conf. I suppose ACPI debug options relate to the kernel and not the loader, so device.hints is perhaps the more "accurate" place. > Warner -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
