Re: Centrino

> From: "Duncan Barclay" <[email protected]>
> >
> > I have booted 4.8 from CD successfully on my Centrino based Acer 800CLi,
> > but not yet installed it. I'm going to give 5.1 a spin this evening once
> > I've downloaded the ISOs.
> >
> > Duncan
>
> Well so far two problems with 5.1-BETA. Booting with one of my Raylink
> wireless LAN cards plugged results in a panic during device probes (I
guess
> that's either the if_ray driver of mine or something strange with NEWCARD
> and
> these cards). With the card removed, the boot gets to mounting md0, but
> hangs.
> I think ACPI is the culpritt as there are lots of ACPI errors scrolling
> past - although it does detect ac power insertion etc.
>
> Duncan

This morning I set
    acpi_load=NO
    hint.acpi.0.disable=1
and tried again. This time, the boot proceeded to trying to find
an init but hung.

Any suggestions?

I'm going try 5.0 and if that doesn't work use 4.8 to bootstrap and then
build a decent debugging environment for -current.

Duncan

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