If you will install your system in a flash drive, you don't need to build a new kernel. Just disable ACPI:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-trouble.html#Q2.11.3.1.
BTW: Did you try with option 2 of CD (To start without ACPI)?
Cheers
D4RIO
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