Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:02:41 -0500 From: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop won't boot -CURRENT after 8/04 Message-ID: <41EBE1A0.8090001@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <1105972939.10350.25.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <41E984AB.7060205@comcast.net> <1105972939.10350.25.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCE6FA9C5E6B24C37D305CF55 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gavin Atkinson wrote: >On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 16:01 -0500, Kris Maglione wrote: > > >>I am in the process of narrowing down the exact date that it stops >>booting, but my laptop won't boot any stable past an early BETA of 5.3 >>and it won't boot with -CURRENT from sometime in late 8/04. The latest >>date I tried was 1/14/05, I believe. The boot stops after detecting acd0 >>(cdrw/dvd-rom). In verbose mode, it stops at: >>GEOM: Configure ad0s1 start ... length ... end ... >>GEOM: Configure ad0s2[a-f] start ... length ... end ... >> >>The laptop doesn't have a serial port, and I've been testing with a >>FreesBIE CD, since the laptop has a slow HD, so I can't post the entire >>dmesg, though I can type out anything important. >> >> > >Hanging here often relates to floppy drive or floppy disk related >issues. Late August corresponds to the GEOMification of the floppy >device. > >Try setting debug.fdc.debugflags=255 from the loader, then posting the >bits of the dmesg relating to the floppy drive. If it looks like it is >getting stuck in the floppy probe, try applying the patch at >http://www.devrandom.co.uk/freebsd/fdc_debug.c to an up-to-date current >tree and replying with the output. > > I read about the possible relation to a floppy, so I compiled without fdc support (my laptop doesn't have one anyway), though I still had the problem. I found one problem, there's another, though. I have one configuration file that will boot and one that won't. I haven't found what causes it yet, although the file that will boot is far less than optimal. > > >>Can someone post an easy way to find all CVS changes between two dates? >>That would be extremely helpful in narrowing the source of the problem. >> >> > >It's quite easy if you have a local CVS repository. (It should also be >possible against the FreeBSD anoncvs server). > >Something like the following: > >cd /var/tmp >cvs co src/sys >cvs -q diff -u -D 2003-10-20 -D 2003-11-20 src/sys > >Will check out the current source then compare all files within src/sys >between October 20th and November 20th. > > Thanks, I figured that out already, although I used rdiff. I do have a local copy of the repository. --------------enigCE6FA9C5E6B24C37D305CF55 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB6+GkmcXjc1XBrAQRAlHmAKCCMkt3JCuOKYe/WetXkOMO9tkd+QCfXZfe EuhPPzGDgGI+USlv1s9UVtM= =nTa+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCE6FA9C5E6B24C37D305CF55--
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