From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 16 22:42:05 2004 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 A2F3216A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:42:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.pacifier.net (smtp2.pacifier.net [64.255.237.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6EC43D5F for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:42:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beeman@subako.org) Received: from koishi.subako.org (ip117.usw208.dsl-acs2.sea.iinet.com [207.202.208.117]) by smtp2.pacifier.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9726A62A for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:42:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from koishi.subako.org (localhost.subako.org [127.0.0.1]) by koishi.subako.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAGMg3J1014550; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:42:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beeman@koishi.subako.org) Received: (from beeman@localhost) by koishi.subako.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAGMg32e014547; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:42:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beeman) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:42:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200411162242.iAGMg32e014547@koishi.subako.org> From: "Roger L. Beeman" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: 5.3 Loader Too Fragile X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:42:05 -0000 Can someone help me build a hardwired version of the loader that will let me boot my system? System is a 440LX dual CPU DEC Personal Workstation Station 333i+. There are no IDE devices. CD and HD are SCSI on 2940U2W controller. I saw in the code that this is bad news if guessing is required. Couldn't boot from floppy or CDROM, I couldn't even get them to take any of numerous variations of switching console from vidconsole to comconsole to capture error messages, so I built hard drive on another system. I get: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 509kB/130048kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Thu Nov 4 22:29:29 UTC 2004) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x22c3e0 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 509kB/130048kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Thu Nov 4 22:29:29 UTC 2004) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes defaulting to disk0: panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x517c4 from [line folded for mail] /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957 --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- I had similar problems with 5.2.1 but was able to resolve them by upgrading to March 25th 5-Current, so I am reasonably sure the hardware is in good shape. Thanks, Roger L. Beeman