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