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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@freebsd.org>, Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net>
Subject:   RE: Laptop boot problem in current with GENERIC & GENERIC.hints
Message-ID:  <200006290222.TAA04480@john.baldwin.cx>

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On 27-Jun-00 John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 27-Jun-00 Edwin Culp wrote:
>> I have 5 machines running current.  All are booting fine with the
>> changes made on June 12, with the exception of a k-6 laptop.  I have
>> been booting the kernel.works since the changes and can't seem to get
>> something right.  I have tried with my original kernel configuration and
>> now have been trying with the GENERIC configuration and GENERIC.hints.
>> When I try to boot with my new kernel I get:
>> 
>> BTX loader 1.0 BTX version is 1.01
>> Console: internal video/keyboard
>> BIOS drive A: is disk0
>> BIOS drive B: is disk1
>> BIOS 639kB/97280kB available memory
>> 
>> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
>> root@casa.local.net Mon June 26 12:37:44 PDT 2000
>> 
>> int=0000000d err=00000000 eft=00010046 eip=000092eb
>> eax=000000fb ebx=00000000 ecx=00000152 edx=000003f6
>> esi=000fbc92 edi=000f0000 ebp=000017b4 esp=000017b4
>> cs:eip=0f 32 89 45 1c 89 55 14-46 eb cf 80 65 31 fd eb
> 
> RDMSR instruction.  It's trying to read an MSR (Model
> Specific Register) from the CPU.  In this case, one that
> is not documented in Intel's manuals.  Thus, it is either
> an undocmented MSR or a K6-only MSR.
> 
>> ss:esp=08 00 00 00 1c 9c 00 00-fe 0e 00 00 d4 17 00 00
>> System halted
>> 
>> I copied this manually since I don't have a console on the laptop.
>> 
>> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
> Rev 1.18 of sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.s should fix this.  Try
> doing an ftp install of a really recent snap from
> current.FreeBSD.org.

Augh!  I found out that actually rev 1.18 contained a bug
causing this problem.  Rev 1.19 of btx.s should actually fix
this.  Sorry.

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