From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 9 14:27: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from web2005.mail.yahoo.com (web2005.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1933737B643 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbibsd@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 5680 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Apr 2000 21:26:59 -0000 Message-ID: <20000409212659.5679.qmail@web2005.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.101.22.98] by web2005.mail.yahoo.com; Sun, 09 Apr 2000 14:26:59 PDT Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:26:59 -0700 (PDT) From: x Subject: kern/17870 mfsroot.flp boot bug duplicated in simplified setup; 3.4-RELEASE works better. To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Cc: fbibsd@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To simplify and verify the nature of the problem, the following conditions were changed (relative to the original kern/17870 PR), and the problem duplicated: 1) switched Primary Master HDD to an old fujitsu MPA3035AT HDD (3.5 GBy) 2) Changed "PnP Aware OS?" from "YES" to "NO" in BIOS (I suppose I should have had it NO before, though I'm unclear on this point since more and more PnP support seems to be in BSD, and the only PnP ISA device I have is a supported Creative AWE32 sound card). 3) dusted out system to get rid of the 'bugs' ;) 4) removed 3c905B-tx ethernet card 5) removed Creative AWE32 PnP ISA sound card 6) removed Diamond FirePort 40UW ncr875 style SCSI card (at this point only the ATI Mach64 VGA PCI card remained, plus the on-motherboard IDE, FDD, SERIAL, PARALLEL, USB, Keyboard, and such) In this minimalized configuration, kern/17870 (mfsroot of 4.0-release crashing a few seconds after it begins loading) is still present. Next I made 3.4-RELEASE kern.flp and mfsroot.flp onto the same floppy diskettes as I had 4.0-RELEASE on. 3.4-RELEASE's kern.flp booted fine. 3.4-RELEASE's mfsroot diskette came up fine, though it did display the following error before it proceeded to show the visual kernel configuration menu: "can't open '/mfsroot': no such file or directory". It seemed to take it in stride and continue, however, well past the point where 4.0-RELEASE's mfsroot would crash or reboot. Either there's a BIOS option that's wrong for 4.0, or 4.0 really hates something about my VGA / motherboard / BIOS / onboard or USB peripherals. Oh and I had used 'md5' to compare the 4.0-RELEASE floppy images with the 4.0-RELEASE /floppies kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images. I also remade the floppies twice, so I don't believe I have a bad diskette issue. It's a bummer that the floppy boot blows up and I can't boot the CDROM for some strange reason. I'll try a few more things to diagnose this, but since I can't get the O/S booted, I've got few options to helpfully debug the issue. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message