On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>>> I had this issue at one time on a SMP motherboard, before I added ACPI
>>> support for Xen3 in NetBSD
>>
>> It's not SMP, would that make a difference?
>
> I have this issue on a SMP system, and disabling SMP workaround it.
> Also it looks like it's related to the serial console, I don't remmeber
> running into this with VGA console ...

This was a standard VGA console. The only thing slightly non-standard was 
a RAID1 RAIDframe array, but I've set these up many times before.

-- 
Stephen