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I just went ahead and installed OpenBSD. :D

In that case, does anyone in this thread have a working FreeBSD? Could you just manually make the revert and build a copy of FreeBSD for us? :e

I dunno. I had resigned to accepting that FreeBSD will not be usable until they fix the bug, and assumed they knew about it and would work on it. But if they don't know about it, I suppose we should send it off to some mailing list. I'll try to find out what we are supposed to do...

Sorry I didn't post earlier. I can't disable the ACPI because I never get to the boot screen. Before I have selected any option, the installer hangs.

Sorry if this has an obvious answer, but how do you do that? I never get the chance to give any input when I boot the installer. I just tell my firmware to boot from the CD, and it tries to do that, and I think it succeeds in loading the installer or maybe the bootloader for the installer and...

Yes. Could one of those lucky enough to have FreeBSD already installed do us unfortunate people a favor and build freebsd with the ACPI revision reverted? :e

I haven't done so yet, but I think it means to install FreeBSD 7.x. :( Perhaps it may also be possible to change the ACPI handling code back to the 7.x version, and compile FreeBSD 8.0 from source. However, that is something I am not experienced enough to do.

Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on my Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro and was running into a problem. When I boot the install CD, it starts printing hardware information and appears to freeze at: acpi0: <APPLE Apple00> on motherboard I waited several minutes and it didn't do...