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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:39:58 -0700
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1 bootstrap failures
Message-ID:  <4150757E.60504@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <790a9fff040921111487afbca@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200409211736.i8LHajfK000463@mist.nodomain> <790a9fff040921111487afbca@mail.gmail.com>

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Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:36:45 -0700 (PDT), Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> wrote:
> 
>>I just downloaded and burned 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1.iso and attempted to
>>start an installation.
>>
>>---------------------------
>>
> 
> Since disabling ACPI didn't work try, disabling APIC at the loader prompt with:
> 
> set hint.apic.0.disabled="1" at the loader prompt
> 
> If this works, you might want to ask Nate if he wants your dmesg
> output and a dump of your ACPI.

The "safe mode" from the daemon loader disables both acpi and apic so 
that's one easy way to do this.

-Nate



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