From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 23:41:17 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 96FAB1065747; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:41:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from mail.netconsonance.com (mail.netconsonance.com [198.207.204.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAAD8FC29; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:41:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from [10.66.240.106] (public-wireless.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.netconsonance.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mA5NfC9h085050; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:41:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netconsonance.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.046 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.046 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=0.394] Message-Id: From: Jo Rhett To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <200810271151.47366.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:41:07 -0800 References: <84E1EC10-5323-4A8C-AD60-31142621DB32@netconsonance.com> <200810271151.47366.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: freebsd-stable Stable Subject: Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot 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, 05 Nov 2008 23:41:17 -0000 On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote: >> So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to boot >> via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less. >> >> /boot.config: -Dh >> Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port >> BIOS drive A: is disk0 >> BIOS drive C: is disk1 >> BIOS drive D: is disk2 >> BIOS 639kB/4062144kB available memory >> >> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 >> (root@dessler.cse.b >> >> Plugging back in the monitor after lockup showed only a single char >> more: >> (root@dessler.cse.bu > > This confirms it is hanging in one of the two BIOS routines to > output a > character. One thing you can do would be to boot up and do the > following: > > dd if=/dev/mem bs=0x400 count=1 of=idt.out > dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k iseek=15 count=1 of=bios.out > > Then place those files some place I can fetch them. Both files are at http://support.netconsonance.com/freebsd/ FYI, this is notable -- the keyboard does not respond at the boot prompt. I mean the menu where you can escape to the loader prompt, with the fat freebsd ascii art. No keyboard presses are observed here. This is also true for the boot menu on the 6.4 installation CD too. No problems with 6.2 or 6.3 -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness