Re: how to turn off devices that monitor sensors

[Clay Daniels <clays.shell%sdf.org@localhost>]

On 6/21/22 5:04 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>      Date:        Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:29:54 +0900
>      From:        Henry <nbsd4ever%gmail.com@localhost>
>      Message-ID:  <CAKP-rwFs90vHx9FFG7XYpz7W-EUbnt5z4VoSdCU7FLrUp2QTwg%mail.gmail.com@localhost>
>
>    | Thank you for the ideas.  The manufacture date of this HP Pavillion
>    | Notebook 15-au123d was 07/01/2017.  NetBSD is installed UEFI.
>
> That should all be new enough that ACPI should work fine, and if the
> other OS's (well windows) can shut down, then I'd assume that entering
> S5 state should make that happen for NetBSD as well.
>
> What other hardware exists in that system?
>
> Does reboot (or shutdown -r) work correctly?
>
>    | I tried `boot -2' but the startup stopped at the following.  I don't
>    | know how to proceed.
>    | boot device: <unknown>
>    | root device:

I have an older HP Pavilion All-in-one I bought 2014 with Windows 8.1 
installed. It's way to slow for Windows 10, but it's great for NetBSD. I 
have tried repeatedly to use UEFI, but the install stops at the point in 
your paragraph above: "root device:" I use good old MBR, and it works 
great. When I clean the disk with gParted, I use either "msdos" or "bsd" 
works too. If I'm reloading from a -current and everything was fine, I 
skip the disk cleaning and it works fine too. NetBSD is really a 
lifesaver for old computers. Good luck.

Clay

> At that point you should be able to type ? and get a list
> of possible root device values, pick the right one, and type it.
>
> But it is possible that without ACPI the disk isn't being seen by
> NetBSD at all, and there will be nothing appropriate in that list.
>
> This is about as far as I can take it, I don't know the x86 architecture
> or the MD x86 code nearly well enough to suggest anything else that you
> can try.
>
> kre