NEVERMIND! Re: Need help: FAIL: Booting 10.3-RELEASE (64) on a VM

[Brian W.]

To mimic an unusefully old computer?

Brisn

On Sep 13, 2016 1:56 PM, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
wrote:

>
> In message <38923.1473536960 at server1.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote:
>
> >   ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found
> (20150515/tbxroot-258)
> >   panic: running without device atpic requires a local APIC
>
> So, it turns out that there was an obscure little toggle switch in the
> VM management console that allows users to disable ACPI in the VM,
> and it somehow got inappropriately set to OFF.
>
> (I'm not the least bit sure why such a switch even exits in the VM
> management
> interface.  Why anyone would ever want to intentionally disable ACPI is,
> I confess, beyond me.)
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