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Date:      Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:49:37 +0600 (YEKST)
From:      iiv@dom.raid.ru
To:        "Gavin Atkinson" <gavin@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 7.1/i386: restarts just after begin booting
Message-ID:  <37295.92.255.139.222.1241077777.squirrel@dom.raid.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1240918919.85945.2.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
References:  <39528.94.180.14.255.1240837157.squirrel@dom.raid.ru> <1240918919.85945.2.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>

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> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 18:59 +0600, iiv@dom.raid.ru wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> The 6.2 and 6.4 releases work well but I've got some problems when
>> booting 7.1/i386 release on my server (Duron1200/ASUS A7N233-VM).
>> When booting from installation CD the computer suddenly restarts
>> after about 2sec so I even can't see any output (seems it's regs
>> dump). MD5 hash of CD is OK, replacing CD-ROM drive didn't give
>> any
>> effect. However after a lot of experimentation I managed to
>> install
>> 7.1 via PXE. But on the first boot just installed 7.1 the same
>> problem has appeared again. I think there is a bug in boot2 or in
>> some code executes before the loader because it boots successfully
>> via PXE (by pxeboot) and by loader at FreeBSD 6.4 installed on an
>> other hard drive.
>> P.S. BIOS was updated to latest stable version.
>
> Can you try booting 7.2-RC2 and see if you see the same issue?  It's
> likely that this has been fixed already.
Thanks, 7.2-RC2 was successfully booted and installed from CD
instead of 7.1. Seems everything works.
BTW, 7.0 doesn't have such problem, but won't boot due to READ_BIG
error.

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