Hello I may have ran into similar issue with a mac laptop from 2009. By way of testing, can you check if dragonfly 3.6.2 boots without acpi --- at boot, get to prompt and give
> lunset acpi_load > set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 > boot -v If it boots, then the behavior is similar. There are possibly two problems that need to be resolved so that 4.8 can boot on mac. The first one has a patch, the second one needs more debugging. Cheers Peeter -- On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:47 PM, ron georgia <rong1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried to install DragonflyBSD 4.8 on my Mac Mini 2010 model. It hangs > after “printing” this message: > > ACPI: 4 ACPI AML tables successfully acquired and loaded. > > I was able to install both OpenBSD and FreeBSD current (not at the same > time). OpenBSD worked out of the box and I needed a little Google foo to get > FreeBSD to use the bge interface. I did try all the “boot without” options > and ended up in the same place. Are there any boot flags I can set or some > black magic incantation to get Dragonfly on my Mac Mini? > > Ron > > > >