> About the first point, saying it is not booting with SMP and APIC_IO, I > want to say that, although APIC_IO is somehow broken on many systems, > Sephe did a great work on SMP some months ago. Is it possible for you > to try with latest ISO snapshot?
There are systems which don't have any usable mptable at all, therefore can't boot anyway with APIC_IO option. As example of such mptable: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~hasso/mptable-intel-DQ965GF.txt -- Hasso Tepper
