On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 05:29:42PM -0500, Mike Oliver wrote:
Update on this: I *can* boot if I leave out "acpi=off" but
substitute "noapic nolapic". I don't know what either of
those options means; I just happened to see another message
where they were being discussed and decided to try them.
That means that the kernel is panicking (or otherwise locking up)
before the console has been initialised. And this only happens
when APIC or local APIC is turned on.
Please try just nolapic, it'll probably fix the problem too.