On Tuesday 08 April 2008 10:15:22 am Greg Byshenk wrote: > I'm piggybacking this onto the previous bootloader thread because I have > a suspicion that my problem may be related to the 'fix' for the prveious > problem. > > I've got a machine (old-ish) that will not boot with the changes to > src/sys/boot/i386 in March. > > It it a dual-p3 system running on an Asus tr-dls motherboard (with most > recent -- from 2002, but that is the most recent) BIOS updates: > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1266MHz (1266.72-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1 > Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> > real memory = 2147463168 (2047 MB) > avail memory = 2091913216 (1995 MB) > ACPI APIC Table: <ASUS TR-DLS > > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 3 > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 0 > > When I install the most recent world (for example, a build of 7-STABLE from > 01-04-2008), it simply fails to boot. No panic, no crash, but just stops. > > I get to: > > [...] > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > > ... and then nothing ... just hangs permanently > > If I change back to 7-RELEASE, or to 7-STABLE as of 18-03-2008, there is > no problem at all. If I run the system with 01-04-2008 world, but copy > back in the contents of /boot from 18-03-2008, then there is again no > problem. I can copy in the 01-04-2008 kernel and run under that, and there > is no problem (it is running like that now). But I have to use the old > version of the booloader. > > I'm not a coder, and haven't looked more deeply, but it appears that > something in here: > > i386/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/Makefile > i386/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S
It would be these changes. Debugging this will be hard. :( Are you familiar with x86 assembly at all? -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
