From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 21:39:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443EC1065689 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from mail.netconsonance.com (mail.netconsonance.com [198.207.204.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1274C8FC19 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from [10.66.240.106] (public-wireless.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.netconsonance.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mAOLdb6M088133 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:39:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netconsonance.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.052 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.052 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=0.388] Message-Id: <280616DD-A58F-4AE5-AB03-92C5F2C244EC@netconsonance.com> From: Jo Rhett To: freebsd-stable Stable In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:39:32 -0800 References: <84E1EC10-5323-4A8C-AD60-31142621DB32@netconsonance.com> <200810271151.47366.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Subject: Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:39:40 -0000 This is now filed as PR 129149 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129149 Given the nature of this bug, can I persuade someone to mark this as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ? On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote: >>> 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 >> >> This confirms it is hanging in one of the two BIOS routines to >> output a >> character. One thing you can do would be to boot up and do the >> following: >> >> dd if=/dev/mem bs=0x400 count=1 of=idt.out >> dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k iseek=15 count=1 of=bios.out >> >> Then place those files some place I can fetch them. > > Both files are at http://support.netconsonance.com/freebsd/ > > FYI, this is notable -- the keyboard does not respond at the boot > prompt. I mean the menu where you can escape to the loader prompt, > with the fat freebsd ascii art. No keyboard presses are observed > here. This is also true for the boot menu on the 6.4 installation > CD too. > > No problems with 6.2 or 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 > "