Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 04:16:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Oliver Blasnik <o.blasnik@nextra.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/30125: btx/bootloader dumps very often if serial remote console enabled Message-ID: <200108271116.f7RBGDv06119@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 30125 >Category: kern >Synopsis: btx/bootloader dumps very often if serial remote console enabled >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 27 04:20:00 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Oliver Blasnik >Release: 4.2, 4.3, 4.4rc >Organization: Nextra Germany >Environment: FreeBSD mailin1-a2.ships.nextra.de 4.4-20010815-RC1 FreeBSD 4.4-20010815-RC1 #0: Fri Aug 24 16:35:19 GMT 2001 root@conf-master.ships.nextra.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/SHIPS i386 >Description: While booting with serial remote console enabled (Intel ISP2150) the bootloader refuses to work very often (before and while loading) and dumps: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (murray@scrub.lab.nuxi.com, Thu Aug 16 04:39:51 GMT 2001) [....] Loading Mfsroot... \ int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00010202 eip=0f00ffff eax=00000000 ebx=840fa6f3 ecx=0002b680 edx=18550000 esi=000000ff edi=00021680 ebp=ff0cbd83 esp=000035e4 cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ss:esp=84 af 00 00 00 c7 45 d0-00 00 00 00 c7 45 d4 00 BTX halted This is possibly related to pr21559 and not fixed now (after ONE YEAR). As far as I am using pxeboot and a large (20M) /mfsroot, it's nearly impossible to get a system booting up. I tried the loaders from 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4rc1. >How-To-Repeat: Enable serial remote console and boot. >Fix: Disable serial remote console. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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