On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:41:08PM +0000, Robert Swindells wrote:
> >panic: unknown MPS interrupt polarity 2
> 
> According to the ACPI spec, an interrupt polarity value of '2' is
> reserved, so something is wrong here.

Yep. I think the MPS tables in the BIOS of recent Acer amd64 laptops
may be bad. I saw the same problem on another Acer laptop.

A solution is probably to boot an ACPI kernel instead. But, this would
require you to rebuild the boot images, unless you can PXE boot over
the network..

- Frank