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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:32:33 -0700
From:      David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Subject:   Re: 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1 bootstrap failures
Message-ID:  <200409240132.33577.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200409240059.47087.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
References:  <200409211736.i8LHajfK000463@mist.nodomain> <200409211206.03632.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <200409240059.47087.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>

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On Friday 24 September 2004 12:59 am, David Syphers wrote:
> The list has been quiet about this, so I assume it's a rare problem. But
> I've got a couple questions about it. First, does anyone have any idea
> what's actually wrong? My computer is running -CURRENT from August 3 fine.
> (I don't have APIC in that kernel.) Anything having to do with ACPI is
> default. My computer is some generic HP, not quite three years old. More
> info available if it would help.

I just did one simple test I should have done first - it's APIC that's the 
problem. Booting with ACPI disabled panics (even earlier than with nothing 
disabled), but booting with hint.apic.0.disabled="1" gets me to the 
installation screen. I thought this would be the case, as I currently run 
ACPI with no problems.

I actually have no idea what APIC is. I assume it's okay if I install with 
that hint set, and then just compile a custom kernel with no APIC? But since 
it's in GENERIC, I really don't think it should be panicking...

-David

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