freebsd stable - Feb 2013 - 9.1-RELEASE AMD64 crash under VBox 4.2.6 when IO APIC is disabled

Hey :-) I have just noticed that booting installation media for
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE AMD64 from ISO bootonly under VirtualBox 4.2.6
results in a kernel panic both when ACPI is enabled and disabled in
the boot dialog screen (seems different cause of crash), when IO APIC
is disabled in VBox (which is a default). I thought AMD64 is not
related to APIC..?
Best regards :-)
Tomek

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info

On Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:16:16 pm CeDeROM wrote:
> Hey :-) I have just noticed that booting installation media for
> FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE AMD64 from ISO bootonly under VirtualBox 4.2.6
> results in a kernel panic both when ACPI is enabled and disabled in
> the boot dialog screen (seems different cause of crash), when IO APIC
> is disabled in VBox (which is a default). I thought AMD64 is not
> related to APIC..?
> Best regards :-)
> Tomek
You will need to add 'device atpic' to your kernel config and build a
custom
kernel.  All real amd64-capable hardware has APICs.

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John Baldwin