FC1 AMD64 Preview installer crash

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 10:39, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On 2 Dec 2003 at 4:48pm, seth vidal wrote
> 
> > I've also noticed that if I disable acpi in the bios the oops changes
> > some.
> 
> I don't think the bios is properly disabling acpi.  Mine boots just fine 
> if you leave ACPI on in the BIOS but put 'acpi=off' on the kernel 
> boot line (as Warren suggested).  There's still an oops during bootup, but 
> it powers through and boots all the way up.  The contents of 
> /var/log/dmesg (including the non-crashing oops) after a successful boot 
> are here:
> 
> http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/nocrash.acpioff.8GB.smp
> 

this is the identical oops I get when I boot w/o a serial console on.

But mine hangs and throws a single keventd error after the oops before
the keyboard lights start blinking (no, I'm not making this up)

-sv