On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:26 AM, <m...@netbsd.org> wrote: > I assume these are the cause and effect, why do you need to disable SMP > and ACPI?
You could be right. I build a kernel with PAE enabled from sources from about the same time as the netbsd-8 level I installed. I let it boot normally, and it boots fine. I was having multiple problems with the machine not booting without either -1, -2, or both in another thread. Without -1 (disable smp) it would get to fsck and hang, and sometimes panic if I used ctrl-c to break out of the hang. Without -2 (disable acpi) it would hang at the last printf statement in the kernel before init starts. Don't know why. -2 solved it. Maybe this was not the real cause. But now it works fine. Don't know why. Andy
