On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:30:05PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> Does anybody know what to tweak in /boot/* to stop
> "bad read/write" messages from/to the BIOS? [At least
> so fare as I can tell?
>
> I've triied everything suggested on Google; rebooted, no-joy.
> The BIOS is reset (AFAICT) to their fail-safe defaults, but
> every 10 sec these errs get printed to stderr.
>
> I'd like to know what ... and *why* with 6.1, just out of the
> blue!
>
I'm replying to my own post for anyone who runs into this
problem and finds this in an archive. The solution is to
take a clue from /boot/loader.help and drop
hint.acpi.0.disable="1"
into /boot/device.hints. reboot, and errors should disappear.
Why this began with FBSD 6.1? No idea.
--
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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