On 2 Dec 2003 at 4:48pm, seth vidal wrote
I've also noticed that if I disable acpi in the bios the oops changes some.
I don't think the bios is properly disabling acpi. Mine boots just fine if you leave ACPI on in the BIOS but put 'acpi=off' on the kernel boot line (as Warren suggested). There's still an oops during bootup, but it powers through and boots all the way up. The contents of /var/log/dmesg (including the non-crashing oops) after a successful boot are here:
http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/nocrash.acpioff.8GB.smp