Re: 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1 bootstrap failures

From: David Syphers <dsyphers_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:06:03 -0700
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 11:39 am, Nate Lawson wrote:
> Scot Hetzel wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:36:45 -0700 (PDT), Dan Strick <strick_at_covad.net> 
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.

This is the same problem I reported yesterday (with the more generic subject 
of "can't install 5.3-BETA5"). Booting in "safe mode" worked fine, and got me 
to the installation screen.

-David

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