Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, John Polstra wrote:
> On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote:
> >
> > Please also send the output of acpidump -t -d > jdp-P2.asl
>
> I booted the 5.1R live CD in an attempt to get this output.  I
> discovered that the machine hangs the same way with 5.1R as it does
> with -current.  (When I originally installed 5.1R, the machine had
> an older, non-ACPI BIOS.)
>
> I've attached the verbose boot messages from 5.1R, in case that's
> worth anything.  Such a shame -- it gets within a hair's breadth of
> running init, but it just can't quite make it all the way there.

Would you try this patch?

http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_sci.patch

-Nate