Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD [Was: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD]

[Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov%comcast.net@localhost>]

,--- You/Joerg (Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:11:23 +0100) ----*
| On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 09:47:19AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
| > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:24:42AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote:
| > > Can something be done about the ACPI errors popping up every (roughly)
| > > minute?  Will filing a PR help?
| > 
| > Please file one and let's hope it helps (at first glance it looks harmless
| > and easy to fix, but I'm no way an acpi expert).
| Unless the polling for battery and TZ is disabled, it won't. This sounds
| once again like a broken BIOS...

Likely so: OpenSolaris was complaining just as much about ACPI errors;
the `messages' file there was growing at enormous rate, and in
addition the boot option to disable ACPI didn't work -- one of the
reasons I decided to scrap it off the disk and try NetBSD.

(If it helps, I can try installing FreeBSD/i386: that actually booted
-- I had tried a 8.0 pre-release I had already on a memory stick. I
wanted (why? don't know) amd64, and retried, unsuccessfully, with a
new, FreeBSD/amd64 8-CURRENT, image on the stick.)

-- Alex -- alex-goncharov%comcast.net@localhost --