On Saturday 14 April 2007 18:55, Andrei Kolu wrote: > Press any key to gain boot prompt while system is loading- look at loader > messages. > From appeared boot prompt type: boot -s
I was under the impression that if you set the autoboot delay to 0 (or -1) then you won't be able to get to the loader prompt at all. I must admit I haven't tested it though. > > phase of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :) > > I got almost identical board P8SCi and have no problems running FreeBSD > 6.1, 6.2, 7-CURRENT. Maybe you should look at supermicro site and upgrade > bios. I think this is ACPI problem. You can disable ACPI temporarily at the > boot loader prompt by issueing "unset acpi_load" if you are having problems > booting an ACPI enabled machine. The loader doesn't use ACPI so while it may be related to ACPI the command you suggest won't have an effect. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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