From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 20 6:54:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5A337B77C; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 06:54:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA06728; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:54:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20000320155420.B6058@foobar.franken.de> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:54:20 +0100 From: Harold Gutch To: Mike Smith Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD? References: <20000105191920.D11588@foobar.franken.de> <200001060829.AAA01025@mass.cdrom.com> <20000106144633.A13911@foobar.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <20000106144633.A13911@foobar.franken.de>; from Harold Gutch on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:46:33PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:46:33PM +0100, Harold Gutch wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:29:18AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > On a (semi-)related topic - I tried to install FreeBSD > > > 3.3-RELEASE on my "Gericom" notebook last week and _always_ > > > failed when booting from either the CD or from the 3.3 bootdisks > > > I had created. > > > The booting process would halt at either the point where it says > > > > > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > > > > > > or it would pass exactly this point and then halt at the next > > > screen (the one where you select wether you want to config your > > > kernel in visual mode etc.). At one of these points it would > > > simply freeze, no panic, no dump, nothing. > > > > More details (eg. the output when you use 'boot -v' on the install > > floppies) would be helpful. > > Whoops, yes, I forgot to attach it to my last mail. > This is the output when booting from the CD. I doubt that the > verbose output from a bootdisk will look different, but I could > give it a try... > > > > It'd be interesting to know if you have the same problem with the boot > > floppies for a recent 4.0 snapshot. > > It halts at exactly the same point. I tried upgrading my notebook to 4.0-RELEASE last night and it froze at exactly the same point again. Two things to note: a) When booting with boot_ddb set, the kernel drops to DDB, but that's it - I can't do/type anything in DDB b) A GENERIC kernel from 4.0-CURRENT as of January 23rd 1999 (just a few days after 4.0 got split off) boots just fine. I just started a "binary search" trying to nail down the last day it worked (and perhaps even the commit that broke it). bye, Harold -- Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have been lost waiting for NT to reboot. Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message