Roy Marples wrote :
Sounds exactly like my issue with -current on my Core2 Quad. My solution was to disable the PS2 ports OR boot with a PS2 keyboard connected - my default keyboard is USB.
Great guess! It works. Disabling the pckbd and the stuff linked to it made the second CPU start like a charm. Pfiouh.
So there is definitely a bug out here, in the console init code, as Manuel suggested.
Thanks for your valuable inputs, thanks for helping me out of this kafkaian situation.
Vincent