From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 18:40:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C305D16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:40:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm15.prodigy.net (ylpvm15-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7DA43D3F for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:40:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.34] (adsl-67-127-84-57.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.127.84.57])i8LIeOqM026833; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:40:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4150757E.60504@root.org> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:39:58 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040901) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scot Hetzel References: <200409211736.i8LHajfK000463@mist.nodomain> <790a9fff040921111487afbca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff040921111487afbca@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Dan Strick cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1 bootstrap failures X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:40:25 -0000 Scot Hetzel wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:36:45 -0700 (PDT), Dan Strick 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