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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:36:37 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -stable /boot/loader fracked ?
Message-ID:  <3A253095.115112EA@urx.com>
References:  <200011290436.eAT4au600391@earth.backplane.com>

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Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
>     I tried doing a buildworld/installworld today on two machines.
> 
>     I built the world, installed the world, rebooted, and both machines
>     crashed in /boot/loader (got weird BTX errors).  These are two
>     totally different machines..  one is a rack-mount Dell box, the
>     other was my personal workstation (a small HP).
> 
>     I restored the /boot/loader from 4.1.1 and the machines booted fine.
> 
>     I don't know if the -RELEASE loader has the same problem or not,
>     but this sounds rather serious to me.

You have four people that aren't having problems and you are. I looked
at the loader code dates in the cvsweb.cgi and nothing has really been
changed in 4 months. I also believe that one problem means more than a
100 good runs. So, what are you doing different? My systems are a
standalone using UDMA-33 drives, and two combo's that are
multi-booting using W2K's ntldr on UDMA-33 drives. None of the drives
are DD. The system build dates are 19 Nov, 22 Nov, and 28 Nov. I use
ahc scsi on the two oldest systems but boot from the ata drives. The
only thing I haven't used on multiple machines is booting from scsi.

Kent

> 
>                                                 -Matt
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