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.

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