From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 17 1:30:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6113B37B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp7.andrew.cmu.edu (SMTP7.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.10.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9811243F18 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:30:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjmccall@andrew.cmu.edu) Received: from UNIX49.andrew.cmu.edu (UNIX49.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.13.179]) (user=rjmccall mech=KERBEROS_V4 (0 bits)) by smtp7.andrew.cmu.edu (8.12.3.Beta2/8.12.3.Beta2) with ESMTP id h0H9UMBI024474 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:30:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:30:20 -0500 (EST) From: John McCall To: current@freebsd.org Subject: i386 boot failure Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've recently been trying to bring a system of mine (4.7-R) up-to-date with -CURRENT by following the dotted lines in UPDATING; basically, everything up through 'make installkernel' and the 'make install' from /usr/src/sys/boot has gone fine; I reboot into loader(8) and 'boot -s', but literally just after printing its "I just loaded acpi.ko" message the system just hangs at a twiddle-prompt, forever stilled. Well, not quite: the keyboard lights blink once and the hard drives click, but no further response. This isn't an ACPI problem; I've unset acpi_load, and the only difference is that the system spins for half a second longer before dying. loader claims to have preloaded the (new) kernel already. Here's the dmesg from 4.7's kernel.GENERIC: Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 root@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (400.91-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bf AMD Features=0x80000800 real memory = 268369920 (262080K bytes) avail memory = 255954944 (249956K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "/kernel.GENERIC" at 0xc050f000. K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers) md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 5 entries at 0xc00fdcd0 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib2: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib2 pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 uhci0: port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 10 at device 7.2 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: (vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3040) at 7.3 pci0: (vendor=0x1102, dev=0x0002) at 8.0 irq 11 pci0: (vendor=0x1102, dev=0x7002) at 8.1 rl0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xd7018000-0xd70180ff irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:4c:39:10:cc miibus0: on rl0 rlphy0: on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pci0: (vendor=0x12b9, dev=0x1006) at 10.0 irq 9 pcib1: on motherboard pci2: on pcib1 orm0: