ACPI was the culprit

[Dave Leimbach]

David Rhodus <drhodus at xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Are you able to boot an FBSD 4.8 ?
> 
> -DR

Haven't tried it in a while but I used to be able to boot it IIRC.

FreeBSD 5.1 certainly works.  I'd have to download some floppies of 4.8
to test.

I will check it out later this afternoon.

Dave

> 
> Dave Leimbach wrote:
> 
> > I can't get FreeBSD 4.9 to run either but I did manage to get 5.2.1
> > RC2 to boot in "Safe Mode" as well as the "disable ACPI" mode.
> >
> >That's why I started looking down this path.
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >