On Tuesday 03 November 2009 11:54:12 am Kenneth Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > Two separate machines fail when starting loader(8) after upgrading > from 8.0-RC1 to -RC2. Both have been installed by following http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > - one is a VMware machine with just one disk, the other a Sun Fire > X2200 server with 2 disks in a ZFS mirror. > > They both booted fine with -RC1, but with -RC2 the last messages are: > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to > disk0: > ficl-s not found > Assertion failed: (FALSE), function ficlCompileSoftCore, file > softcore.c, line 428. > > Reverting to the -RC1 /boot/loader fixes.
Usually the 'Guessed BIOS device' stuff is caused by the loader re-executing itself, perhaps due to a stack overflow. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ 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"
