On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:10 PM, ssartor <ssar...@bellatlantic.net> wrote: > Kind of a ‘me too’ but I just bought a Zotac Zbox Ci327 for use as a small > home office server/firewall. Like your MSI board, it has a newer generation > CPU, in this case a Celeron N3450 quad-core (Apollo Lake, Goldmont > architecture, slightly older than Kaby Lake). In my case, neither NetBSD 7, > 8 or current would boot — always died with a ‘cpu 1: failed to start’ > message. After some poking around I found I could boot the machine by turning > off SMP (boot -1). It’s running fine now on NetBSD 7 but it does seem as if > current generation Intel parts are problematic.
I built a new netbsd-8 kernel (with source from about the same time as the binaries I used to install) and the only difference from GENERIC is I enabled PAE in the config. It now runs fine with smp and acpi enabled. No idea why it was so unstable before. Andy
