From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 18:33:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B70EF1065698 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:33:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B728FC1A for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:33:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 18821 invoked by uid 399); 30 Jul 2008 18:33:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 30 Jul 2008 18:33:53 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4890B40F.50200@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:33:51 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080726) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominik Meister References: <20080730132032.GA21261@mercury.meisternet.ch> In-Reply-To: <20080730132032.GA21261@mercury.meisternet.ch> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: btxhalt2008@schottelius.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:33:54 -0000 Dominik Meister wrote: > Hi > > We are experiencing a problem with one of our FreBSD 6.2 machines. The > machine has been running fine for months until we had to reboot it. Now > it doesn't boot anymore. After the boot loader we get what looks like a > register dump: Assuming you simply rebooted the machine and did no other changes, this is likely to be disk corruption (probably due to age). If the symptoms persist, try taking this opportunity to install 6.3 (you have backups of all the data and configurations, right?) and see if that helps. If not, your disk is toast. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection