>> To summarize, a -current i386 GENERIC kernel built today hangs during boot.
>
>This might sound completely off the wall but try disabling the msdos
>filesystem in the configuration and rebuild the kernel.  This sounds
>like a problem I was having except that I dropped into the debugger so
>I was able to see where it was crashing.

No, does not help.

I believe that the problem was created in the integration of the ATAPI stuff.
Kernels built before the ATAPI integration worked just fine.  Ones after the
integration hang.

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