Re: 5.3-BETA2 problems booting HP NetServer E60 both ACPI andnon-ACPI

From: Ruslan Ermilov (ru_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 08/31/04

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To: Dennis Kj?r Jensen <signout@signout.dk>

    On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:25:23PM +0200, Dennis Kj?r Jensen wrote:
    > > > You can disable AGP with hints on recent -CURRENT versions. Set
    > > > hint.agp.0.disabled=1 while in the loader(8), and see if that helps.
    > >
    > > Same same - the system locks up both with and without acpi
    >
    > I actually managed to get it running without even having to turn any knobs
    > in loader(8)
    >
    > BIOS upgrade from 4.06.25 PN to 4.06.26 PN solved the case.
    >
    > According to HP:
    > "Fix hang problem during Windows 2000 installation on E60 systems with
    > motherboard containing a new version of Winbond Super I/O chipset
    > (W83977EF)"
    >
    > Apparently this also fixes hang problem with FreeBSD newer than 4.7
    > Why it broke somewhere between 4.7 and 4.8 is beyond me, but I don't really
    > care about that now :)
    >
    Thank you a lot for following up, Dennis!

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
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