Re: HP NetServer boot trouble

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 05:13:12PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> I'd rather use both cores if I can.  I did some Web searching (ugh) and
> it appears the penguin prints a similar message but doesn't actually do
> anything for it.  Looking at the (NetBSD) code gives me the feeling
> this is some kind of debugging facility and I could "fix" it by just
> having AcpiOsSignal handle ACPI_SIGNAL_BREAKPOINT by silently returning
> without doing anything.

There were some ACPI tables in productive BIOSes that contained ACPI
break points. Those are skipped now (since 5.0 or so?), so if that
really is the problem, try a 5.x kernel first.

Joerg