27.07.2016 15:37, carlos izzo videla пишет: > 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. >
Compile table, place it in a file accessible to grub and use acpi <file> where <file> is name of file that contains compiled table. See if your "info grub" contains description of acpi command. _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
