Hello: Like many others, my motherboard (Sun Ultra 24) has ACPI problems caused by a very badly written BIOS, to the extent of reporting itself to MS Windows as a laptop.
I use Mint 18 64 bit, a W7 drive came with the workstation and I'm only booting for using with software that will not play nice with Wine. Unfortunately, there are no BIOS updates or support available from the OEM. While I have been able to edit the DSDT table and recompile it with no errors I have not found a way to load it at runtime and I am not keen about recompiling a kernel. While looking around for a way to load a modified DSDT table, I came across a post at http://savannah.gnu.org, referenced to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45002. If I understand what it says correctly, the OP makes a reference to loading a DSDT file via GBUB2: --- snip --- I can load other ones (by making a dump to file from /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/XXXX and then loading with grub's acpi xxxx.dump) ... --- snip --- For the life of me I have not been able to find out how it is done or the syntax to use. I'd appreciate any input with respect to this. Thanks in advance, A. _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
