Rob Hughes wrote: >All, > >I have a Toshiba 5005-S504 laptop (a wonderful legacy-free box that's >I've cussed to no end) that I'm trying to get DP1 to boot on so I can >cvsup and take a look (and hopefully contribute something). I was able >to install, but after installation the system soft hangs after >displaying a message about CPU power states (sorry, going off memory for >now). I'm able to break to the debugger, so what information from dbg >would be helpful at this point? Also, I'm pretty sure it's acpi that's >causing the problem, so would someone point me to the syntax for >disabling a module preload? > >Thanks, >Rob > > > I was tracking down a similar hang and had to disable acpi (turns out I'm an idiot and the apparent hang at boot was because I forgot console was redirected to the serial port of the machine next to it), but I had to jump through hoops to do it it seems. I believe all you have to do is 'unset acpi_load' at the boot loader prompt. I had tried 'set acpi_load=NO', and finally 'unset module_path' to keep the kernel from finding /boot/kernel/acpi.ko.
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