Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:33:35 +0000 From: Nick Jones <nick@tachief.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Loader causing reset on 4.6-STABLE Message-ID: <20020621093335.GA10994@cordelia.tachief.com>
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I originally posted this to -stable, but as it seems to have stumped everyone there I thought I'd give you guys a try instead. I'm fairly certain it's not -STABLE specific anyway. Since updating my sources on the 17th and upgrading to 4.6-STABLE, I've encountered a problem with getting my machine to successfully boot. Before loader even finishes initialising, my box just resets. Some kind of error is echoed to the screen, and I've managed to capture this via a serial console: ------ FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (nick@tachief.com, Tue Jun 18 11:49:18 BST 2002) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Console: serial port BIOS drive A: is disk2 BIOS drive C: is disk3 BIOS 640kB/261108kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (nick@tachief.com, Tue Jun 18 11:49:18 BST 2002) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: Console: serial port BIOS drive A: is disk4 BIOS drive C: is disk5 BIOS 640kB/261108kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (nick@tachief.com, Tue Jun 18 11:49:18 BST 2002) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x37574 ------ I can, however, issue a ^C just after I've selected which disk to boot from in the bootloader and before loader causes my box to reset. This then allows me to boot /kernel (instead of /boot/loader), and apart from it complaining about loader metadata being missing, it continues to boot and function just fine. So, any ideas? I've not noticed anyone else complain of a similar problem so far with -STABLE, and I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to try next. The hardware is fairly standard - Intel Celeron 433, Asus BX-based mainboard, Adaptec 2940U SCSI controller, and the bootdisk is an IBM DNES-309170 (9.1GB SCSI) designated da0. -- - Nick Jones | nick@tachief.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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