FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same 
problem than described by this person:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502

however I really don't understand why I would need to move partitions 
around to allow the installer to even start? This machine has 2GB of RAM 
which I guess should be plenty enough to start the installer without 
swapping... The hard drive is a 80GB WD IDE drive. The machine is not 
configured to use any RAID.

Thanks!

Peter C. Lai wrote:
> Well try turning off ACPI, HyperThreading, etc.?
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> On 2010-02-08 09:01:28PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.0 on one of my machines. It is an 
>> older Pentium with HyperThreading. It was running fine with 7.2 but the 
>> kernel crashed after a buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/reboot of 8.0. 
>> I had not updated FreeBSD on that machine for a while so I decided to burn 
>> a CD of 8.0 i386 (disc1) and boot the machine with it. This does not work 
>> either however as the kernel wants to automatically reboot the machine 
>> right after the "Probing Device" stage. Here is the error message I get:
>>
>> Going nowhere without my init cpuid = 1
>>
>> Does anyone know what can be causing this and how to solve it?
>>
>> Thanks!
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