From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 29 8:36:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDC937B402 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:36:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA03863; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:36:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3A253095.115112EA@urx.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:36:37 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Dillon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -stable /boot/loader fracked ? References: <200011290436.eAT4au600391@earth.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message