On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 08:27:32PM -0400, Jason wrote: > I have a few choices. To turn off acpicpi on the amd64, switch to i386
Out of these two choices you would definitely want to use amd64 with acpipci disabled rather than i386. In fact, the i386 generic kernel doesn't include acpipci which is basically why it boots on your machine whereas amd64 doesn't.

