On 2011-03-17, Scott McEachern <sc...@blackstaff.ca> wrote: > On 03/16/11 10:54, Tero Koskinen wrote: >> I have exactly same motherboard with Phenom II X4. For me, it helps >> when I disable acpi. ("boot -c"& "disable acpi" during the boot) >> > > You know, I'd absolutely *swear* I tried that to no avail, but trying it > again, I can get it to boot. > > I have a funny feeling I went too quickly before and typed "disable > ahci" by accident. > > With acpi disabled for the test install of both 4.8-release and -current > it didn't see all six cores and installed bsd.sp as bsd. After fixing > that manually it sees all cores. > > Now I'll try a full install on the desired HDD, build the system from > scratch and see how that goes. If it works, I'll post a dmesg in a > bit. So far, it looks like everything will be fine but it does indicate > there are still issues in the ACPI code. But hey, at least it seems to > work and is a lot better than a kernel hang and not having OpenBSD at > all! :)
Modern machines *expect* to have the acpi code running, acpi controls many aspects of the system including some methods to maintain correct system temperature.