Boot failure, 7.1R-amd64

Brother Railgun of Reason alaric at caerllewys.net
Tue Mar 17 11:31:06 PDT 2009


Dieter,
Yes, my ISP has a badly broken antispam system in place.  See if this 
address works any better.

> acpi or apic ?
> 
> With apic disabled, you need
> 
> device atpic
> 
> in your config file.  Someone yanked it starting in 7.0 thinking that
> amd64 systems would never need it.  If apic always worked properly
> maybe you wouldn't need it.

No, I did mean ACPI, not APIC.  Disabling ACPI is necessary even to boot 
7.1R-i386.  I haven't touched APIC.


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