freebsd stable - Feb 2010 - FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

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!

Well try turning off ACPI, HyperThreading, etc.?

On 2010-02-08 09:01:28PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> 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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Hi--

On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> Going nowhere without my init cpuid = 1
> 
> Does anyone know what can be causing this and how to solve it?
I don't suppose you built a custom kernel without the COMPAT_FREEBSD7
option?  You need it until you get a new R8 userland and all ports recompiled...

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