Just to be complete, there are already a whole bunch of machines that will not boot 5.x, irregardless of the ACPI issues. I've never been able to boot 5.x with ACPI on or off, on any of the 5 Dell PowerEdge 6350 servers I have here, even though they run 4.9 perfectly. I have a PR open on it.
So even without the ACPI issues on some hardware, there are still other
reasons why 5.x is going to fail to boot.
Are you using a PERC in those boxes? I've seen issues with PERC controllers on 5.1, but 4.8 worked fine. I received a patch, which fixed it, but it's a bit hard to install the os, and then rebuild world without rebooting the machine. :)
Eric
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