It's been a couple years since I have been active on the lists. I have
been itching to get OpenAFS running on FreeBSD so I dove in with 5.2.1. I
have never had a fresh binary install of FreeBSD in the -stable or -current
branch fail to boot until just now.
This system won't boot with ACPI. The loader doesn't seem to maintain my
menu selection (Selection #2, ACPI disabled) from boot to boot so I must
boot the system while sitting at the console. I am a bit dismayed. I
never had to pay one iota of attention to the loader until now. I prefer
to not have to fiddle bits on very fundamental code that keeps my system
from booting.
My request is this. Please don't enable flaky functionality by default.
ACPI is openly stated as flaky and not uniformly implemented in the
handbook. Also, please don't add any more gee-whiz to the loader. Trying
to decipher where a system setting is being made in a language I do not
know isn't especially fun. (If ACPI wasn't my issue, I don't suppose that
I would care about the loader.)
I'll get the system booting. No worries there. I just wish I didn't have
to mess with this aspect of my system and from what I see, there is no
sense to it.
Later,
Jason C. Wells
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