Yes..long standing bug, and I don't have sufficient time to get my feet wet in the IDE dept
and fix it.

-d

"M.H.VanLeeuwen" wrote:

> > Disable PIIXn tuning and recompile your kernel.  How does it fare now?
>
> Yep, disabling (opposite of "enabling") does allow the kernel to boot just fine.
> PIIXn tuning must be tickling something on the system so that the first time we
> read from the disk, partition check block 0, the system freezes hard.

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