"Latitude with broken BIOS" ?
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"Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC."
Lots of Dell laptops (like other vendors) crash instantly when trying to enable the APIC.
Well my Dells power off on rebooting from 2.5... bug 119 or 134 in
http://bugme.osdl.org, no need to resort to messing with the APIC ;(That one IMO looks like an ACPI problem (Note ACPI != APIC)
More like PM in general, happens with my older Latitude with APM as well
(I was making a point of ease of crashing, not confusing APIC and ACPI ;)
--alessandro