IBM xSeries 225 with single processor - can't boot 5.x?

[Vivek Khera]

On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:37 AM, jcaldwell at ymcastlouis.org wrote:

> I've got a number of IBM xSeries x225 servers, which are dual-capable 
> but
> right now have only one Xeon processor each. Attempting to boot from 
> the
> install CD for both 5.2.1 and 5.3-BETA3 yields the same problem - 
> endless
> streams of what look like register states, seperated by single 
> characters
> of the '/|\-' sequence. Doesn't even get past the boot loader.
>

Does  it look like what I just submitted in 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71800

I'm on a generic system with an AMD Duron 850MHz processor.  This has 
only happend to me on BETA3 (just cvsup'd to BETA4).  Hopefully it 
won't happen again!