Dell PowerEdge 840 ACPI panic early in boot

[John Baldwin]

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