In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This is during a new install and after loading all floppies it
> actually halts the boot process and notifies of an automatic reboot
> [in 15 seconds].
Paste in the few lines before the automatic reboot message. You can
also force the acpi module to load even if it was blacklisted by
entering
set hint.acpi.0.disabled=0
at the loader prompt before the kernel boots.
--
Dan Nelson
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