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Kip Macy wrote:

>On my laptop 5.2.1 panics with a GPF on boot after install when mounting
>ad0s1a. The latest snapshot panics in malloc as result of a use after
>free in the CAM subsytem on initial boot.
>  
>

That's not normal.  I don't know of any other such bug report, not in 
the last six months anyway.

>I've verified that there are no hardware issues (although there are
>driver limitations) by successfully installing and running Mandrake 10
>and Fedora Core 2.
>  
>

It might be better to try FreeBSD/i386 to see if there is a hardware or 
software issue that might affect FreeBSD/amd64.