Hi,

I have a Hewlett-Packard L2000 ("Livestrong Edition") laptop I'd like
to install NetBSD on. I've been able to successfully boot and install
FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, and Linux 2.6.* by turning ACPI support off
at the bootloader, so I suspect doing the same for NetBSD 3.0 will
allow me to boot (however I am not sure how to do this).

It currently hangs booting immediately after the following line:
ioapic0: enabling

Also, after successfully installing FreeBSD, I could boot the default
option by setting the following flags in device.hints beforehand:
hint.apic.0.disabled=3D"1"
hint.sio.0.disabled=3D"1"
hint.sio.1.disabled=3D"1"

I'm willing to try making a custom boot disk, if necessary, but I do
not know how (and I do not have another amd64 machine).

Thanks in advance,

Chandler