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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:50:17 +0800
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with /boot/loader [A new patch]
Message-ID:  <48A0EC59.16D49C91@kuzbass.ru>
References:  <20080627031233.9DC4945047@ptavv.es.net> <200808111131.33371.jhb@freebsd.org> <20080811170623.GA43671@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <200808111400.49376.jhb@freebsd.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:

> Ok, I'm at a loss for why the new BTX doesn't work for you.  Unfortunately,
> this sort of thing isn't easy to debug.  If you have firewire (and another
> machine with firewire) then I have some debugging code I used with qemu to
> save a summary of the last request made by the loader to BTX.  That can at
> least indicate which BIOS call is hanging.  From there you can dissassemble
> your BIOS to try to determine if there are any spin loops and see what it is
> waiting on.

Thank you very much for the effort. I have firewire here but not another
machine with it, but I'll try to find one. I'll contact you again
when I'll find it.

Eugene Grosbein


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