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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:27:04 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: George Mitchell <george@m5p.com>
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:50:44PM -0700, George Mitchell wrote:
> Some further information about what I've tried so far:
> 
> The stock FreeBSD 5.2.1-amd64 CD-ROM gets as far as showing me the
> daemon boot screen.  I select booting without ACPI and get the
> spinning bar for a couple of seconds and then:

ACPI is pretty much required.  What happens when you boot with ACPI?
 
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