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Add FAQ entries on dealing with ACPI issues and enabling the ISA drivers
that were recently disabled. There still are several references to the now-gone userconfig; these need to be fixed before 5.0-RELEASE. Approved by: re (rwatson)
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<title>Common Installation Problems for &arch.print; Architecture Users</title>
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<qandaset arch="i386">
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>My system hangs while probing hardware during boot, or it
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behaves strangely during install.</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>&os; 5.0 and above makes extensive use of the system ACPI
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service on the i386 platform to aid in system configuration if it's
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detected during boot. Unfortunately, some bugs still exist in both
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the ACPI driver and within system motherboards and BIOS. The use
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of ACPI can be disabled by unsetting the <quote>acpi_load</quote>
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variable in the third stage boot loader:</para>
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<screen>unset acpi_loader</screen>
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<para>This is reset each time the system is booted, so it might be
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necessary to set it permanently in the file
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<filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>. More inforation about the
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boot loader can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>My legacy ISA device used to be recognized in previous versions
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of &os;, but now it's not. What happened?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>Some device drivers, like matcd, were removed over time due to
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lack of maintainership or other reasons. Others still exist but
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are disabled because of their intrusive hardware probe routines.
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The following device drivers fall into this category and can
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re-enabled from the third stage boot loader: aha, ahv, aic, bt, ed,
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cs, sn, ie, fe, le, and lnc. To do this, stop the loader during
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it's 10 second countdown and enter the following at the
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prompt:</para>
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<screen>unset hint.foo.0.disabled</screen>
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<para>where <quote>foo</quote> is the name of the driver to re-enable.
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This can be set permanently by editing the file
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<filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> and removing the appropriate
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<quote>disabled</quote> entry.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>I go to boot from the hard disk for the first time
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