amd64/162936: fails boot and destabilizes other OSes on FreeBSD 9 RC2 with MSI P6N SLI Platinum

[John Baldwin]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/162936; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
Cc: Kevin Ar18 <kevinar18 at hotmail.com>,
 freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/162936: fails boot and destabilizes other OSes on FreeBSD 9 RC2 with MSI P6N SLI Platinum
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:20:14 -0500

 On Monday, November 28, 2011 9:35:08 pm Kevin Ar18 wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       fails boot and destabilizes other OSes on FreeBSD 9 RC2 
 with MSI P6N SLI Platinum
 > ...
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 9 RC2
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > * MSI P6N SLI Plantium (nForce 650i northbridge)(nForce 430i southbridge)
 > * Intel Q6600
 > * USB Memory
 > * 1x IDE drive
 > * 1x SATA drive
 > >Description:
 > Summary:
 > --------
 > Using the "FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img"
 
 Hm, here you say 8.2, bit your title says 9?
 
 On a whim, if this is 9, can you try setting 'debug.acpi.disabled=hostres' 
 from the loader prompt?
 
 -- 
 John Baldwin