5.3-RELEASE: Where is the blacklist referenced on the install disks?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said:
> > > ASUS p2b-d motherboards are blacklisted on 5.3-RELEASE and refuse
> > > to install. Where is this blacklist located, I need to manually
> > > remove that block?
> > >
> > > The ASUS p2b-d motherboards are quite common, we have probably
> > > 100 or so left of them and have at one point had over 400. Seems
> > > really strange to me to exclude a popular motherboard on acpi
> > > issues...
> >
> > The blacklist is on BIOS versions that have broken ACPI support. 
> > All it does it disable the ACPI module.  Your system should still
> > boot fine without it.
> 
> This is during a new install and after loading all floppies it
> actually halts the boot process and notifies of an automatic reboot
> [in 15 seconds].

Paste in the few lines before the automatic reboot message.   You can
also force the acpi module to load even if it was blacklisted by
entering

	set hint.acpi.0.disabled=0

at the loader prompt before the kernel boots.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com