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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4-amd64 boot problem under qemu
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The amd64 version of -BETA4 doesn't completely boot under
qemu-system-x86_64 -- it hangs while trying to mound md0 as
root.  The i386 version of -BETA4 does work under
qemu-system-x86_64.

Note that if you want to try this, use the -no-kqemu switch
as kqemu with the 64 bit qemu crashes the system.