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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: 7B4: kernel messages garbled
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On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:09:02PM -0800, Chris H. wrote:
> After initial install. Sending a halt, in order to reboot the system
> results in garbled messages to the console. Specifically, the
> Syncing disks... message is unintelligible. As does is line
> preceding it.

Does "garbled" mean it looks like there's two separate printf()s
occuring at the same time, with characters interleaved?  If so:

http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/common_issues.txt 

Also, your Email address has a hash symbol in it, so I hope this mail
makes it through to you...

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