From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 06:40:59 2004 Return-Path: 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 7FA6216A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:40:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F4343D4C for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:40:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 56D3372DF8; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:40:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51BD772DD4; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:40:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:40:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Roger L. Beeman" In-Reply-To: <200411162242.iAGMg32e014547@koishi.subako.org> Message-ID: <20041128223837.H40277@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <200411162242.iAGMg32e014547@koishi.subako.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.3 Loader Too Fragile X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:40:59 -0000 On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Roger L. Beeman wrote: > Can someone help me build a hardwired version of the loader that will > let me boot my system? > > System is a 440LX dual CPU DEC Personal Workstation Station 333i+. > There are no IDE devices. CD and HD are SCSI on 2940U2W controller. > I saw in the code that this is bad news if guessing is required. Yes, at first glance it appears your BIOS is completely braindead. > Couldn't boot from floppy or CDROM, I couldn't even get them to take > any of numerous variations of switching console from vidconsole to > comconsole to capture error messages, so I built hard drive on another > system. I get: > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > BIOS 509kB/130048kB available memory Those memory numbers don't make sense. How much physical RAM is in the system? > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Thu Nov 4 22:29:29 UTC 2004) > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x22c3e0 Console: internal video/keyboard Jumping back around to loader again looks extra bad. > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > BIOS 509kB/130048kB available memory > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Thu Nov 4 22:29:29 UTC 2004) > 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 @ 0x517c4 from [line folded for mail] > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957 > --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- > > I had similar problems with 5.2.1 but was able to resolve them by upgrading > to March 25th 5-Current, so I am reasonably sure the hardware is in good > shape. Dunno. Either the BIOS in that machine is completely whacked out or you have more serious hardware problems. Based on the age of the machine and the fact that DEC is dead I'd probably give up on this. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org