I tried what you suggested. It didn't seem to recognize "ioapic0",
since it didn't respond to the command "disable ioapic0", and the boot
hung at the same place. I rebooted and tried again, this time with
"disable ioapic", and it responded as follows:
[ 65] ioapic* disabled

"find ioapic" produced:
[ 65] ioapic* at mainbus 0 apid -1

It then booted to the friendly blue language selection screen, but the
built-in keyboard (and I assume the track pad as well) were
nonfunctional (is this an expected result of disabling ioapic
altogether?). I had to connect a USB keyboard to interact with it. I
did not proceed with install because the laptop is of little use to me
if I must use it with an external keyboard and mouse.

Any ideas?

Chandler

On 2/17/06, Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:09:01PM -0600, Chandler May wrote:
> > 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
>
> Aren't you confusing ACPI and APIC?
>
> I think you should be able to boot with the command boot -c, and in the
> UKC prompt, type "disable ioapic0". and then "exit".
>
> Pavel
>