I am having the exact same problem as original poster, whenever I try to boot the edgy eft live cd. I have AMD Barton 2600+ on MSI KT4 mobo, which uses VIA chipset. I think this definately has to do with VIA. I have tried ACPI =force, ACPI=off, pnpbios=off, and various combinations of these flags, all to no avail. I have updated the BIOS, but it didn't help. AS far as I can see, my BIOS has no ACPI options to play with. Dapper works fine.
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