Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote: So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to boot via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less. /boot.config: -Dh Consoles: internal video/keyboard seria

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-11-01 Thread Aragon Gouveia
| By Aragon Gouveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [ 2008-11-01 08:43 +0200 ] > > Anything is possible. Can you please rebuild your system, and the > > bootstraps (and don't forget to install them; bsdlabel -B ), > > without messing with optimisation flags? > > I j

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-31 Thread Aragon Gouveia
Hi, | By Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [ 2008-10-25 10:09 +0200 ] > Anything is possible. Can you please rebuild your system, and the > bootstraps (and don't forget to install them; bsdlabel -B ), > without messing with optimisation flags? I just

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:57:05AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday 25 October 2008 04:09:45 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Just for posterity: the USB Legacy Support BIOS option does not affect > > natively-connected PS/2 keyboards; you can leave the option enabled even > > in the scenario

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-27 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday 25 October 2008 04:09:45 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Just for posterity: the USB Legacy Support BIOS option does not affect > natively-connected PS/2 keyboards; you can leave the option enabled even > in the scenario where you have a USB keyboard *and* a PS/2 keyboard > plugged in; one

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-27 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 24 October 2008 03:05:32 pm Jo Rhett wrote: > John, is this perhaps the problem seen with 7.0, discussed here? > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-05/msg00437.html It is related, but that fix is already in 6.4. -- John Baldwin __

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-27 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote: > So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to boot > via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less. > > /boot.config: -Dh > Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS d

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-25 Thread Aragon Gouveia
| By Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [ 2008-10-25 10:09 +0200 ] > Okay, so then the issue is probably with the bootloader in some bizarre > way. John might have some ideas, but I have none (outside of my skill > set). > > Also, it might help if you c

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 03:42:18AM +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote: > | By Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | [ 2008-10-25 03:22 +0200 ] > > > FWIW, I've had problems with 7.0's boot loader locking up too. I'm > > > running > > > a -stable compile from ma

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: | By Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [ 2008-10-24 21:13 +0200 ] On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Milan Obuch wrote: I did not investigate on this issue too much, but there is an workaround - copy older /boot

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Aragon Gouveia
| By Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [ 2008-10-25 03:22 +0200 ] > > FWIW, I've had problems with 7.0's boot loader locking up too. I'm running > > a -stable compile from march and during bootup, if I make too many > > keypresses the bootup sequence fr

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 02:37:50AM +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote: > | By Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | [ 2008-10-24 21:13 +0200 ] > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Milan Obuch wrote: > > >I did not investigate on this issue too much, but there is an > > >w

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Aragon Gouveia
| By Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [ 2008-10-24 21:13 +0200 ] > On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Milan Obuch wrote: > >I did not investigate on this issue too much, but there is an > >workaround - > >copy older /boot/loader over newer one. In my case, I am re

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Milan Obuch wrote: I did not investigate on this issue too much, but there is an workaround - copy older /boot/loader over newer one. In my case, I am rebuilding whole world often, and now /boot/loader seems to not build correctly for me. Older one is ~ 250 kB,

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
John, is this perhaps the problem seen with 7.0, discussed here? http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-05/msg00437.html On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Has anyone filed a PR on this problem, or contact

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to boot via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less. /boot.config: -Dh Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS drive D: is disk2 BIOS 639kB/4062144kB availa

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-24 Thread Jo Rhett
On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Has anyone filed a PR on this problem, or contacted John Baldwin? Yes, but debugging these hangs is very non-trivial. It likely involves disassembling the BIOS and trying to see where it can get stuck in a loop. John, is there anything I

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 23 October 2008 02:24:49 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:27:45AM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote: > > On Thursday 23 October 2008 01:32:27 Jo Rhett wrote: > > > I haven't had time to investigate, but after installing 6.4RC1 on a > > > machine I've been using with 6.3 for

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-22 Thread Joe Koberg
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:27:45AM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote: I did not investigate on this issue too much, but there is an workaround - copy older /boot/loader over newer one. In my case, I am rebuilding whole I have experienced loader troubles in the past whe

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:27:45AM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote: > On Thursday 23 October 2008 01:32:27 Jo Rhett wrote: > > I haven't had time to investigate, but after installing 6.4RC1 on a > > machine I've been using with 6.3 for a few months, it installs > > painlessly but on the first and subseque

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-10-22 Thread Milan Obuch
On Thursday 23 October 2008 01:32:27 Jo Rhett wrote: > I haven't had time to investigate, but after installing 6.4RC1 on a > machine I've been using with 6.3 for a few months, it installs > painlessly but on the first and subsequent reboots you see > > BTX Loader 1.00 blah blah blah > ... > Loading