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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:05:07 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell PowerEdge 840 ACPI panic early in boot
Message-ID:  <200812011205.07767.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081125181512.GA89700@fire.mfrac.vpn>
References:  <20081125181512.GA89700@fire.mfrac.vpn>

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On Tuesday 25 November 2008 01:15:12 pm Bill Brinzer wrote:
> Booting FreeBSD on my brand new Dell PowerEdge 840 causes a panic
> very early in the boot sequence.  Disabling ACPI allows the boot to
> proceed normally.
> 
> Here's what I've tried so far.
> 
> Boot 7.0-RELEASE i386 via PXE -> early boot panic.
> Boot 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 via PXE -> early boot panic.
> Boot 6.1 i386 via CD (GENERIC kernel) -> early boot panic.

Try 6.4 or a 7.1 release candidate.  There was a bug in the MADT stuff in 
earlier releases in that it didn't handle the MADT header spanning two pages.

-- 
John Baldwin



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