From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 02:20:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DC4106566B for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:20:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@simons-rock.edu) Received: from hedwig.simons-rock.edu (hedwig.simons-rock.edu [208.81.88.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCA68FC12 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cesium.hyperfine.info (c2.8d.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.141.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hedwig.simons-rock.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D122BB33C; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:20:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:20:40 -0500 From: "Peter C. Lai" To: Pierre-Luc Drouin Message-ID: <20100209022039.GE4648@cesium.hyperfine.info> References: <4B70C1F8.8090809@pldrouin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B70C1F8.8090809@pldrouin.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:20:43 -0000 Well try turning off ACPI, HyperThreading, etc.? On 2010-02-08 09:01:28PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.0 on one of my machines. It is an > older Pentium with HyperThreading. It was running fine with 7.2 but the > kernel crashed after a buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/reboot of 8.0. > I had not updated FreeBSD on that machine for a while so I decided to burn > a CD of 8.0 i386 (disc1) and boot the machine with it. This does not work > either however as the kernel wants to automatically reboot the machine > right after the "Probing Device" stage. Here is the error message I get: > > Going nowhere without my init cpuid = 1 > > Does anyone know what can be causing this and how to solve it? > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- =========================================================== Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon's Rock Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd. Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428 ===========================================================