Re: BOOT HANGUP: 6.1-RELEASE, Acer Aspire 5102WLMi and BIOS ver. 2.60
"Abdullah Al-Marrie" <[email protected]>
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On 12/22/06, Paul Argentoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello world! > > BEWARE BIOS ver. > 2.00 > > Acer has recently updated BIOS for Acer Aspire 5102WLMi to 2.60 (see their > site for more detailed info). I've found that after upgrading BIOS from 2.00 > to 2.60 FreeBSD kernel hangs on boot even before Copyright message. Unloading > ACPI module has no effect. > > In my case I've downloaded and installed good ol' 2.00 version, so I can boot > again. Has anyone found/solved this issue? FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Dec 22 15:02:36 AST 2006 arabian@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN i386 Using 2.60 bios. Has no issues at all. The only crash would be booting with no acpi. Thank you, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/