From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 01:49:51 2009 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 F0844106564A for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:49:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjr@alisa.org) Received: from mail.alisa.org (mail.alisa.org [65.103.114.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3118FC18 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:49:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjr@alisa.org) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (c-98-245-37-189.hsd1.co.comcast.net [98.245.37.189]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.alisa.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0L1M2OY051525; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:22:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jjr@alisa.org) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.4.0.080122 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:22:00 -0700 From: John Rushford To: Mark Kirkwood , Reuben Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE? Thread-Index: Acl7Zqh250rLWudZEd2PXAAX8gEdYA== In-Reply-To: <4975ADF4.1070103@paradise.net.nz> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (mail.alisa.org [65.103.114.105]); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:22:05 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE? 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, 21 Jan 2009 01:49:52 -0000 Hello, Perhaps mine is a different issue but I ran into this today. I loaded FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE from a DVD onto an Apple Mac Pro after partitioning a drive with bootcamp. The install went quite well and the machine came up with no issues. I configured networking, X, and got gnome working. I setup cvsup and loaded the STABLE sources, ran make buildworld, make kernel, etc... I attempted to boot into single user to run mergemaster, installworld, etc.. But the machine will not boot, I now get the following errror and prompt: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad9s1a Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem e.g. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input I input ufs:/dev/ad9s1a to no avail and ? Does not list any other devices. I've booted from the DVD and gone into Fixit mode and can mount /dev/ad9s1a just fine. I thought that I'd try putting back loader.old on the off chance that might solve the problem but, I do not see a loader.old, just loader. The kernel.old directory is there. Any ideas on what the issue might be and how to fix? Appreciate the help as I'd like to get 7.1-STABLE running on this machine. Regards John On 1/20/09 3:56 AM, "Mark Kirkwood" wrote: > Reuben wrote: >> >> I was wondering if anyone else was seeing loader (v1.02) break after updating >> from 7.1-RELEASE to 7.1-STABLE. After performing the prescribed updating >> procedure (via the handbook), the system will go through the normal steps and >> after the boot menu will present the following error: >> >> Can't work out which disk we are booting from. >> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0 >> >> According to the bugbusting page on the FreeBSD wiki there's two issues at >> work that cause this behavior; patches were committed to HEAD/RELENG earlier >> last year in Mar and Aug. Up until now I've never come across this problem >> in 6.x or 7.0. In doing a little research I've come across a few older >> threads via google where it was believed that the problem was caused by >> improper CFLAGS in make.conf. I've commented mine out and rebuilt things.. >> with the same end result. In fact, if it's any help, my CFLAGS declaration >> in make.conf is taken verbatim from the /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf. >> Furthermore, on selecting option 6 from the boot menu (escape to loader >> prompt), the system [I'm assuming] crashes displaying a blinking ASCII >> pattern from which only a hard reboot will work. >> >> FWIW, this is a fairly plain system.. nothing special in sysctl.conf or >> loader.conf, and the kernel is pretty stock as well (more or less GENERIC >> with my sound device and pf). >> >> A temporary fix for me was to copy over loader.old to loader in /boot. >> >> >> > > I am getting this too - update from RELENG_7 @12 Jan src to 20 Jan and I > have: > > panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x511d > from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:959 > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0 > > > > Copying loader.old to loader did not work around this for me - I had to > empty loader.conf too. > > Here is what *was* in there: > > ---> begin loader.conf > # Sound > sound_load="YES" > snd_hda_load="YES" > > # IPC > kern.ipc.semmni=500 > kern.ipc.semmns=500 > > > # CD/DVD DMA > atapicam_load="YES" > hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 > --> end loader.conf > > > At this point I am not sure which if are the bad guys... > > > The machine is an Asus a8vx. > > regards > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"