>>On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:17:05AM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote:
>>>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..
 
>>..or, as a temporary alternative to get going, install NetBSD/i386, since
>>that will use legacy IRQ interrupts, which might work. Of course, that's
>>not what you want as a permanent solution..
 
>I made the changes to build INSTALL_ACPI and GENERIC_ACPI kernels, but
>haven't committed them yet. Do you want to review them first ?
 
Yes. Show it please.
 
>My ASUS wouldn't boot NetBSD/i386 either. 
 
>Robert Swindells