From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 20:43:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@www.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1117616A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:43:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [216.136.204.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59E143D5C for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:43:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from royce.williams@gmail.com) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F89D5563A for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:43:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from royce.williams@gmail.com) Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742DE16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:43:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBDA343D5C for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:42:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from royce.williams@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so836629wra for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:42:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ekZb3rnth0wT1kRikfCcVKDlLbgrQi+UqsRAgXWCHkL2UpJCpKp4oQY2r9iToOorB2U6RCZZv/H+sWHVSfz/lohqDH+X2M8ZC+FSQmPZEPdnI7UF8l/sAmgPgB0Is3xBFEoYuBpCk/4fXoyQMjMRkIabSsg12geIbce6WV2Mm5g= Received: by 10.54.14.31 with SMTP id 31mr87674wrn; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:41:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.47.43 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:41:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9dd082310502271241176ce08d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:41:58 -0900 From: Royce Williams To: freebsd-questions@lists.freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Interjet requires warm reboot from 5.x boot loader? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Royce Williams List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:43:01 -0000 When warm/cold booting an Interjet under FreeBSD 5.2.1 or 5.3 (vanilla installs), kernel loading fails. The only workaround I've figured out so far is to reboot from the boot loader "OK" prompt, as shown below. I'm not skilled in the hardware troubleshooting arena, so I'm stumped. I've searched for others with this problem, and they seem to be clearly related to things like booting from bad floppies, etc -- but my instinct is that this would mean that booting would always fail. Also, I can warm boot without power-cycling (with shutdown, for example) and I get the same error until I reboot from OK. I thought that it might be some kind of hard-drive spin-up or delay issue, but I haven't been able to locate anything in the loader configs to create a delay to test this theory. Unfortunately, since cold-booting always fails, this makes the boxes unusable every time they take a power hit or reboot for some other reason. [example session starts] Console: serial port BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/7168kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x45da18 elf32_loadexec: archsw.readin failed /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x45da18 elf32_loadexec: archsw.readin failed /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x45da18 elf32_loadexec: archsw.readin failed Unable to load a kernel! - Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x45da18 elf32_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load 'kernel' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OK reboot Rebooting... Console: serial port BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/64512kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x45da18 data=0x79550+0x47a2c syms=[0x4+0x57fa0+0x4+0x6a496] /boot/kernel/snd_pcm.ko text=0x14d90 data=0x2634+0x10b8 syms=[0x4+0x2d00+0x4+0x3196] /boot/kernel/snd_sbc.ko text=0x284c data=0x2cc+0x4 syms=[0x4+0x860+0x4+0x894] ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3 3 3 3 , , 3 3 /( )` 3 Welcome to FreeBSD! 3 \ \___ / | [snip] Can anyone kick me in the right direction? Royce -- Royce D. Williams - IP Engineering, ACS personal: [first]@alaska.net - PGP: 3FC087DB/1776A531 work: [first.last]@acsalaska.net - http://www.tycho.org/royce/