9.1-RELEASE AMD64 crash under VBox 4.2.6 when IO APIC is disabled

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:16:16 pm CeDeROM wrote:
> Hey :-) I have just noticed that booting installation media for
> FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE AMD64 from ISO bootonly under VirtualBox 4.2.6
> results in a kernel panic both when ACPI is enabled and disabled in
> the boot dialog screen (seems different cause of crash), when IO APIC
> is disabled in VBox (which is a default). I thought AMD64 is not
> related to APIC..?
> Best regards :-)
> Tomek

You will need to add 'device atpic' to your kernel config and build a custom 
kernel.  All real amd64-capable hardware has APICs.

-- 
John Baldwin