From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 12:37:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0CC16A4E5 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:37:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adam@adamretter.eclipse.co.uk) Received: from mra04.ch.as12513.net (mra04.ch.as12513.net [82.153.254.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5509E43D97 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:37:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adam@adamretter.eclipse.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mra04.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB105C110F for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:37:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from mra04.ch.as12513.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra04.ch.as12513.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15317-01-8 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:37:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from funkalicious.home.dom (unknown [82.152.93.225]) by mra04.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1A0C0508 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:37:27 +0100 (BST) From: Adam Retter To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:38:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1157632691.58001.6.camel@funkalicious.home.dom> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk Subject: Broken loader in STABLE 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: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:37:57 -0000 Hi Chaps, I think something has changed with regards to loader in STABLE recently, it has prevented me from being able to boot my machine today. This ideally needs to get fixed so other people dont have the same problem. Previously I have been able to boot fine and the system has been solid as a rock, until... I did a make buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, reboot, mergemaster -p, installworld, mergemaster and then reboot - since the second reboot (after mergemaster) my system wont boot up any more - I get to the FreeBSD boot options screen width the besatie logo "1. boot default - 6. escape to loader etc" and then I get this - FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (adam@funkalicious.home.dom, Thu Aug 31 12:53:11 BST 2006) 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 @ 0x67184 from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:958 --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- Now I solidly believe that it is the loader in STABLE that is the problem because, I can boot my system using a FreeBSD 6.1-BETA#1 Install CD and then escape to the loader on the cd and send it options so it boots my system from harddisk, the system then comes up no problem - in fact im writting this email on it. The process I use to boot my system via. the install cd is this - Boot from CD >From the boot options screen with the beastie logo, I press "6" to escape to the loader, I then use these commands - unload set rootdev=disk1s3a load disk1s3a:/boot/kernel/kernel load disk1s3a:/boot/kernel/linux.ko load disk1s3a:/boot/kernel/linprocfs.ko load disk1s3a:/boot/modules/nvidia.ko load disk1s3a:/boot/modules/hpt374.ko boot My System is - Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Processor 2 x 1GB Corsair DDR400 RAM MSI 848P Neo Motherboard Nvidia 6800LE DDR3 256MB 120GB Maxtor SATA Hard disk HPT 374 RAID 5 SATA Controller 3 x 250GB Maxtor SATA Hard disk (raid 5) DVD-ROM DDU1621/VER S3.5 DVDR DVD-RW IDE1004/VER 0251 Thanks Adam Retter