When trying to boot the LiveCD athlonxp 31.7.2003 1.4 with the acpi kernel, acpi produced error messages and acpid turned out to be absent on the livecd. I did not check the other livecds whether the problem occurs there too. Reproducible: always.
I can confirm this bug for the P3-Livecd, and the latest 6x86-Livecd. But there is more: 1. the acpi-modules do not load correctly (no big problem, it's not that important for the installation , but ..) 2. the apic-irq-routing does not seem to work, and it should (tried it with default debian) rgds, Bjoern
correction: 2.ACPI-irq-routing ( not apic .. )
some boards need apic for acpi-irq-routing to work, maybe this is the case with your board? noapic is passed by default