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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: panic on startup FreeBSD 5.2.1-p8 system/i386
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris Stenton wrote:

> I have been rebooting my machine a fair few times recently and just had a
> panic on startup after a reboot.
>
> I got this just after the kernel loaded
>
> AP #3(PHY# 7) failed

This is indicative of some level of failure in starting up one of your
CPUs.  You may want to check for a BIOS update, as there were BIOS bugs in
some systems that did not reset the CPUs properly.  If this repeats
frequently for the same CPU (AP #3), it may be defective.

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