WARNING: new patches are broken for 12.0/i386

[PMc]

Do not apply 12.0-p4 on i386.
It fails to boot. New rollout is coming.

12.0-RELEASE-p4 kernel panic on i386 boot

lists.freebsd.org

 

[drhowarddrfine]

I had the same issue on amd64 for my personal server. Interestingly, my laptop upgraded just fine.

 

[zirias@]

amd64 worked fine for me on all machines, one server where I directly added current CPU microcode and hw.mds_disable=1 with efi boot, one desktop (legacy BIOS) and one notebook (efi) with no additional actions (AMD processors) -- all installed from /usr/src / /usr/obj built on the server. I wonder what could be different in your case ....

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Well, I see that RELEASE-p5 came out this morning. I did freebsd-update and it worked without a hitch. Since this is supposed to only affect i386, I wonder if there is something more involved that the developers are unaware of or do I need to ask questions of my hosting provider.