Boot code broken in some way in recent current (Was: Panic at boot)

[Roman Kurakin]

Doug White wrote:

>On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Roman Kurakin wrote:
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>>One more thing:
>>I've just booted with safe mode!
>>It looks very strange, since I've diffed kenv vs. /boot/device.hints
>>and only major difference is ACPI.
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>>PS. upgrating to VF4.b didn't help at all. MPTable seems to be 1.4
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>Safe mode also disables SMP and APIC.
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>Is there an option in the BIOS for "OS type"?
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It seems that this is complete list of options with OS word:

PNP OS
    No
OS Select For DRAM > 64M
    Non-OS2
MPS Version Control For OS
    1.4

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