Supermicro PDSMI failed to boot on fresh RELENG_7/amd64

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 08:11:51PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 
> JC> > 3 of 4 times this machine failed to boot, panicing somewhere in late kernel 
> JC> > initialization phase (before /sbin/init is executed)
> JC> >
> JC> > {snip}
> JC> 
> JC> We have many (specifically, 6) PDSMI+ (not PDSMI) boxes which do not
> JC> exhibit this problem.
> 
> Next followup: RELENG_7/i386 is working well, only amd64 exhibits problems.

Interesting.  There's another recent post about this problem, also using
amd64.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045170.html

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