From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 21 10:52:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E0E16A477 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:52:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from office@plop.at) Received: from plop.at (A0020P029.ws.highway.telekom.at [91.112.250.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A6B13C465 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:52:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from office@plop.at) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (dune [10.0.0.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by plop.at (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1LAdUYY031429 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:39:31 +0100 From: PLoP To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:39:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1203590367.2618.31.camel@dune> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: boot problem with 7rc2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:52:36 -0000 hi, i wrote a free bootmanager with support to boot via usb even if the bios does not support usb booting. somebody reported me that freebsd 7rc2 is not booting. i tested it. freebsd 6.3 is booting fine but the 7rc2 really hangs. i used a minimal installation with standard mbr option from the freebsd installer following happens: first kernel load is ok then the bootmenu with "welcome to freebsd" and the 7 option comes now selecting the default option... it tries to continue to boot. it seems it looses the bootdrive number (0x80) because it says "can't work out which disk we are booting from", access my floppy drive and runs into a kernel panic. with freebsd 6.3 all works fine and it continiues to boot after the menu without problems. any idea whats different. i know it will be no bug of freebsd because normal booting works fine. but it would be great if you can give me a hint to figure out why booting not works with 7rc2. best regards elmar hanlhofer -- Web: http://www.plop.at Tel: +43/1/2924536