Kernel panic at early boot time

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday, June 17, 2012 2:35:14 pm mnln.l4 wrote:
> I get a kernel panic at early boot time on 9.0-stable (r237150), GENERIC,
> AMD64.
> 
> Repro step:
> 1. Boot, wait for welcome screen.
> 2. Repeat pressing Enter key rapidly (so kernel is loading, don't stop
> pressing Enter key).
> 3. See the following message at early boot

So don't do that.  All your key presses are triggering SMI# events that are
interfering with the AP's ability to respond to its startup IPI.  There is
nothing we can do about this in the OS.

-- 
John Baldwin