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From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Disabling acpi
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On May 25, "Joseph Davida" wrote:

> Installed 5.2-CURRENT-20040508-JPSNAP
> some time ago.
> Would like to boot into single user mode
> with all ACPI support DISABLED.
> How can I do that? It seems the only
> way I can boot is by selecting option
> 2 from the boot menu, which boots into
> multiuser mode , with ACPI disabled.
> For some reason, all options in which
> ACPI is enabled, causes kernel crash.
> My hardware is
> GA-8PE667 Ultra 2, Pentium 4 2.4 GHZ
> 
> I tried to
> set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
> and then, boot -s
> to no avail. kernel crashes.

You'll need to type 6 to use the boot loader.  Then, type "unset
acpi_load" to disable acpi.  Then, type "boot -s" to boot single-user.

Feeling your pain,

Mike