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On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Travis Pugh wrote:

> Is there something I'm missing with regards to ACPI on the AMD64  
> platform?  I've read here that i386 boots fine on the same hardware.

I have one piece of dell equipment which insists on disabling ACPI  
timer and then everything works.  Disabling ACPI totally seems  
undesirable under normal circumstances.


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