From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 23:04:48 2005 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 E594F16A4EB for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 23:04:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94B8A43D5E for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 23:04:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noacks@swbell.net@70.240.205.64 with login) by smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 May 2005 21:25:10 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1D46109; Mon, 9 May 2005 16:25:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07847-01; Mon, 9 May 2005 16:25:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (optimator [192.168.1.11]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B4260F6; Mon, 9 May 2005 16:25:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <427FD52D.70404@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 16:25:01 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gurvich References: <200505081529.31238.david.freebsd@verizon.net> <427EDFB4.3070309@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <427EDFB4.3070309@alumni.rice.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 OpenPGP: id=991D8195; url=http://www.noacks.org/cert/noackjr.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2C3657E74B13508BF4A151CE" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader causes reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 23:04:49 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2C3657E74B13508BF4A151CE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/8/2005 10:57 PM, Jonathan Noack wrote: > On 05/08/05 14:29, David Gurvich wrote: >> cdrom /boot/loader from 5.3 has no problem. However, after updating >> world from kernel, /boot/loader is replaced with cvs version. This >> one goes into endless cycle of reboots. When replaced with >> /boot/loader from cdrom boots normally. > > Are you setting CPUTYPE? A few people have reported an endless reboot > with the athlon-xp or pentium-m settings. I experience this on my > athlon-xp and the only workaround I've found is just to not set CPUTYPE. > This problem is way beyond my feeble skills to track down and fix, but > it doesn't seem to affect many people and no one has stepped up to > resolve it. As it is easily worked around, I've brought it up a few > times but haven't made too big of a fuss. Come to think of it, why > didn't I ever open a PR? Hmm... perhaps I'll do that at work tomorrow > (this is on a machine at work). Huh... setting CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp seems to work fine for me with 5.4-RELEASE. -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 --------------enig2C3657E74B13508BF4A151CE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCf9UxUFz01pkdgZURAv/XAKDXouQyEjfn7WO+Z6qDK1ypsW/xRACfeI8e jA0/gREgPmO4isKdPFv9FQQ= =joTa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2C3657E74B13508BF4A151CE--