diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml index 8862cf842ec5..95b5d9ab2a2e 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml @@ -35,17 +35,19 @@ My system hangs while probing hardware during boot, or it - behaves strangely during install. + behaves strangely during install, or the floppy drive isn't + probed. &os; 5.0 and above makes extensive use of the system ACPI service on the i386 platform to aid in system configuration if it's detected during boot. Unfortunately, some bugs still exist in both the ACPI driver and within system motherboards and BIOS. The use - of ACPI can be disabled by unsetting the acpi_load - variable in the third stage boot loader: + of ACPI can be disabled by setting the + hw.acpi.0.disable hint in the third stage boot + loader: - unset acpi_loader + set.hw.acpi.0.disabled=1 This is reset each time the system is booted, so it might be necessary to set it permanently in the file @@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ Some device drivers, like matcd, were removed over time due to lack of maintainership or other reasons. Others still exist but are disabled because of their intrusive hardware probe routines. - The following device drivers fall into this category and can + The following ISA device drivers fall into this category and can re-enabled from the third stage boot loader: aha, ahv, aic, bt, ed, cs, sn, ie, fe, le, and lnc. To do this, stop the loader during it's 10 second countdown and enter the following at the @@ -70,8 +72,8 @@ unset hint.foo.0.disabled - where foo is the name of the driver to re-enable. - This can be set permanently by editing the file + where foo is the name of the driver + to re-enable. This can be set permanently by editing the file /boot/device.hints and removing the appropriate disabled entry.