On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 07:17:52PM +0000, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote: > Victor Balada Diaz wrote: > >This laptop doesn't boot without acpi enabled. Hangs after: > >ppc0: parallel port not found. > >>>That's just after printing > >>>kern.seedenable: 0 -> 1 > >>>load: 0.27 cmd: sysctl 23 [acsem] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 276k > >>>load: 0.08 cmd: dd 20 [piperd] 0.00u 0.05s 0% 164k > >>That's either in /etc/rc.d/random or /etc/rc.d/initrandom. > >Tried booting not using them and so far doesn't hang. > > Might be that it can't gather enough entropy; where does it gather > entropy from? Perhaps from static on the (in your case nonexisting) > parallel port?
Don't know where it gathers the entropy by default, but worked before so i guess that it's a bad interaction with ACPI. -- La prueba más fehaciente de que existe vida inteligente en otros planetas, es que no han intentado contactar con nosotros.
