From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 30 14:14:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26796 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-16-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26754 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id XAA00884; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:13:11 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199809302113.XAA00884@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: i386/8105: boot.help behavior is broken In-Reply-To: <19980930164317.A297@kublai.com> from Brian Cully at "Sep 30, 98 04:43:17 pm" To: shmit@kublai.com Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:13:09 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Cully wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 12:20:00PM -0700, Robert Nordier wrote: > > A very much better fix is to install btxboot, which doesn't print the > > help file at all. > > Does it work with a.out kernels and/or CAM? I tried btxboot-0.8.0 and > got a register dump. For a.out, it works here on various machines; and also according to several reports received. I've also had a positive report for a CAM SMP box. However, I'd be interested in getting details of the register dump. Not on account of btxboot (which is unimportant) but because it is test code for BTX, which the new 3-stage bootstrap also uses. (Even just the "eip=" value would be a help in deciding whether this is a btxboot, BTX, or kernel problem.) -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message