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Date:      Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:20:40 -0500
From:      "Peter C. Lai" <peter@simons-rock.edu>
To:        Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...
Message-ID:  <20100209022039.GE4648@cesium.hyperfine.info>
In-Reply-To: <4B70C1F8.8090809@pldrouin.net>
References:  <4B70C1F8.8090809@pldrouin.net>

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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!
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