Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-10 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:58:13 pm C. P. Ghost wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: This patch changes the Forth code for the Beastie menu to only display the menu option to enable or disable ACPI if the loader detects ACPI. This avoids

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-10 Thread David Rhodus
What are the chances the detection fails and one still needs to disable ACPI and can't because it's not showing as a option ? Thanks, David Rhodus On Nov 8, 2010, at 5:14 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: This patch changes the Forth code for the Beastie menu to only display the menu

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-10 Thread Scott Long
If the loader can't detect acpi, the kernel can't either. Scott On Nov 10, 2010, at 9:01 AM, David Rhodus wrote: What are the chances the detection fails and one still needs to disable ACPI and can't because it's not showing as a option ? Thanks, David Rhodus On Nov 8, 2010, at 5:14

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-10 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:57:35 am John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:58:13 pm C. P. Ghost wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: This patch changes the Forth code for the Beastie menu to only display the menu option to enable

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-09 Thread Lars Engels
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:45:52PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 09/11/2010 07:26 Lars Engels said the following: Maybe we should also import PCBSD's patches to the beastie menu? In PCBSD's beastie menu you can toggle some settings like safe mode, and ACPI, so the kernel is not loaded as

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-09 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 09/11/2010 16:08 Lars Engels said the following: That's also an appreciated improvement, but what PCBSD does is that you can toggle several options, so when you select an option, the kernel is not loaded immediately after but you are still in the menu and can select / toggle another option.

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-09 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 09/11/2010 07:26 Lars Engels said the following: Maybe we should also import PCBSD's patches to the beastie menu? In PCBSD's beastie menu you can toggle some settings like safe mode, and ACPI, so the kernel is not loaded as soon as select an option. See

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-09 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: This patch changes the Forth code for the Beastie menu to only display the menu option to enable or disable ACPI if the loader detects ACPI.  This avoids displaying a menu item prompting to enable ACPI if the BIOS doesn't

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: This patch changes the Forth code for the Beastie menu to only display the menu option to enable or disable ACPI if the loader detects ACPI.  This avoids

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:45:00 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper gcoo...@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: This patch changes the Forth

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net wrote: Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:45:00 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper gcoo...@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM,

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-08 Thread Kevin Lo
John Baldwin wrote: This patch changes the Forth code for the Beastie menu to only display the menu option to enable or disable ACPI if the loader detects ACPI. This avoids displaying a menu item prompting to enable ACPI if the BIOS doesn't actually include ACPI. Any objections? I have no

Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-08 Thread Lars Engels
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:14:53PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: This patch changes the Forth code for the Beastie menu to only display the menu option to enable or disable ACPI if the loader detects ACPI. This avoids displaying a menu item prompting to enable ACPI if the BIOS doesn't actually

Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present

2010-11-08 Thread John Baldwin
This patch changes the Forth code for the Beastie menu to only display the menu option to enable or disable ACPI if the loader detects ACPI. This avoids displaying a menu item prompting to enable ACPI if the BIOS doesn't actually include ACPI. Any objections? ---