via nano support

[George Hartzell]

Gerrit Kühn writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I have the same via mainboard (vb8001) described here
 > (<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2009-January/011794.html>)
 > and the same problem ("cpu doesn't support long mode").
 > The problem exists (as already reported above) with 7.1-R and also with
 > the recent 7.2-images I just downloaded and tried. However, from the
 > thread above I cannot figure out what the recommended solution is.
 > Install 7.0 (which has been reported to run) and upgrade to -current
 > (is the matter fixed there?)?
 > Install 7.0 and upgrade to 7.1 or 7.2 patching out the strcmp() checks
 > in the loader?
 > Any other possibilities?

I can confirm that 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso downloaded this
morning does not boot on the VB8001.

It gets to

  Bootng [/boot/kernel/kernel]...

then bails with

  CPU doesn't support long mode

g.