[ACPI] lockup on boot

[Sean M. <ela...@aw...>]

Hi,

 Using kernel 2.4.20-pre7 with the 20020918 ACPI patch, I'm unable to
boot the machine.

 With debugin off, it gets as far as
PCI: Using configuration type 1

 Turning debugging on, the messages following the above are
(approximately - no cut and paste ~,^):

 tbxface-0099 [03] Acpi_load_tables    : ACPI Tables successfully loaded
Parsing Methods: ... (many dots)
Table [DSDT] - 441 Objects with 45 Devices 109 Methods 15 Regions
Parsing Methods: (complete lack of dots)
Table [SSDT] - 0 Objects with 0 Devices 0 Methods 0 Regions
ACPI Namespace successfully loaded at root c02f705c

 And that's it.  It's sat there for around 10 minutes and nothing else
has happened.  Passing pci=noacpi results in no changes.

 Passing acpi=off, the machine boots up much further, but some devices
don't seem to work properly (it may just be I didn't add support to the
correct devices in the kernel config - my working kernel is the default
Redhat 7.3 pcmcia-cs kernel image, which is great except the laptop gets
rather hotter than it did in WinXP...)