CURRENT will not boot on Latitude C610 w/o acpi

[Scott Long]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Ted Faber wrote:
>
> > CURRENT as of yesterday (23 Mar 2004) will not boot on my Dell Latitude
> > C610 without ACPI.  As far as I know this has never worked, but I only
> > recently advanced the machine from STABLE.
>
> Not sure how similar the 600 is to the 610, but with my C600, I have to
> compile the kernel without SMP and apic, or I can't successfully load X11
> without hanging pretty often.  I can get to single-user with no problem
> though (although I'm running a couple of weeks ago on the notebook due to
> travel and hardware problems).
>
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research

Does booting a GENERIC kernel in 'safe mode' from the loader not help your
X11 hang problem?

Scott