It only boots with acpi=off, hangs after outputting "starting sound 
driver: intel8x0", but looks like an ACPI bug. Tried pci=routeirq and 
pci=noacpi also.
Athlon 3000+/512M, Asus A7N8X-E, nForce2 chipset.

Regards
Sid.

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