Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:48:13 -0700 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot Message-ID: <84E1EC10-5323-4A8C-AD60-31142621DB32@netconsonance.com> In-Reply-To: <BEBF7B15-DECE-4872-9687-4AD4BE65DB05@netconsonance.com> References: <A5A9A4D4-CD16-45FA-A2AC-62C4B5AE976D@netconsonance.com> <200810230627.46478.freebsd-stable@dino.sk> <20081023062449.GA78633@icarus.home.lan> <200810231608.10110.jhb@freebsd.org> <BEBF7B15-DECE-4872-9687-4AD4BE65DB05@netconsonance.com>
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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 available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@dessler.cse.b Plugging back in the monitor after lockup showed only a single char more: (root@dessler.cse.bu 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 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 can do to provide you with more useful > information about this problem? > > The board is a Tyan S2720 > 2 2.66G Intel Processors > 4 Gigabytes of RAM > 2 36G ST336607LC Cheetah drives > > While playing around randomly I found something interesting. If the > keyboard is attached while booting, you get the problem I reported > before: > >> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.con >> \ > > > But if you boot without a keyboard it gets beyond that point and then > > pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pci0b > > > Fatal trap 12; page fault while in kernel mode > cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 > > ...a bunch of other stuff. I can't capture this because I can't > type fast enough. Also noteworthy, I can't hit "6" to set console > to comconsole so that I could cut/paste this. It really seems like > there are major problems around the keyboard. (and no such problems > with 6.3) > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source > and other randomness > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness
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