On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:13 +0900, David Adam wrote: > > I upgraded my 7.0 system to 7.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update only to find > > that it no longer boots correctly, instead crashing with a BTX backtrace. > > If I break to the loader prompt and use 'ls /boot', I also get a > > backtrace. > > > > A new install of 7.1 on this hardware using a separate SCSI card and drive > > array also leads to a BTX backtrace. I have copied this below as the first > > (most repeatable) error and also included the other problems. > > > > A fresh install of 7.0 works fine. FreeSBIE 1.0, based on FreeBSD 5.3, > > also boots fine and will happily list the contents of the original drive's > > /boot in the loader, although refuses to load the kernel. The FreeBSD 7.1 > > install CD also boots and allows me to install over FTP. > > A patch has just gone into HEAD which may fix this problem. If you want > to test it, it's at > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S.diff?r1=1.47;r2=1.48 > and should apply cleanly.
I built and installed a new version of -CURRENT which has this patch, using the instructions at the bottom of UPDATING. To be certain - btx doesn't need loading into the boot blocks, does it? bsdlabel -wB from my 7.0-RELEASE install and then using make installworld etc with DESTDIR should ensure that the new boot binaries are installed? If so, then unfortunately the patch does not help - btx still crashes with a similar traceback to the one I originally posted. I would be more than happy to test further patches. David Adam zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
