BOOT HANGUP: 6.1-RELEASE, Acer Aspire 5102WLMi and BIOS ver. 2.60

[Abdullah Al-Marrie]

On 12/22/06, Paul Argentoff <argentoff at rtelekom.ru> wrote:
> Hello world!
>
> BEWARE BIOS ver. > 2.00
>
> Acer has recently updated BIOS for Acer Aspire 5102WLMi to 2.60 (see their
> site for more detailed info). I've found that after upgrading BIOS from 2.00
> to 2.60 FreeBSD kernel hangs on boot even before Copyright message. Unloading
> ACPI module has no effect.
>
> In my case I've downloaded and installed good ol' 2.00 version, so I can boot
> again. Has anyone found/solved this issue?

FreeBSD  6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Dec 22 15:02:36
AST 2006     arabian@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN  i386

Using 2.60 bios.

Has no issues at all.

The only crash would be booting with no acpi.

Thank you,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/