From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 19 16:36:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D51737B423 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:36:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA93825 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:36:33 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22701; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:36:33 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200009192336.KAA22701@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: 4.1 install won't boot (but 4.0 will!) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed ; boundary="==_Exmh_19867862430" Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:36:33 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multipart MIME message. --==_Exmh_19867862430 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii We are trying to install 4.1 from the WC CDs onto an HP Vectra XA. (PentiumPro 200, 64Mb Ram, one hard disk on ata0-master, one CD-ROM on ata1-master - dmsg attached below.) This machine boots from CD and the boot floppies just fine. We can install the OS, all goes fine. (We've tried about 6 times, using various combinations of standard/quick/custom install). We are using the whole disk for FreeBSD, but not using dangerously dedicated. We have tried using the standard MBR or BootEasy. But when we try and boot the machine from the hard disk, it won't boot. All we get (after the POST) is a single "-" in the top LH corner of the screen. No whirly, no error messages, no BTX loader banner, nothing but the single "-". Needless to say, NT and Linux install and boot on this machine just fine. And FreeBSD 4.0 from the WC CDs installs and boots just fine. And we have installed from the same 4.1 CDs onto other machines with no problems, so I don't think it's a problem with the CDs themselves. We have booted using the boot floppies then run the fixit floppy (can't use the Fixit CD-ROM for some reason - see my post from yesterday) and tried "disklabel -B" and "fdisk" and various other incantations, without success. Any clues about how we might track this down? What has changed since 4.0? (We are happy to try alternate boot blocks etc if someone has something to test, but this machine will have to be put onto a user's desk early next week, so be quick!) A copy of Dmesg from a boot with the boot floppies attached. The stuff about invalid partition tables at the end is because the disk currently has Mandrake Linux on it. Greg. --==_Exmh_19867862430 Content-Type: text/plain ; name="dm"; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: dm Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="dm" Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Fri Jul 28 15:06:57 GMT 2000 jkh@ref4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 199739692 Hz CPU: Pentium Pro (199.74-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x619 Stepping = 9 Features=0xf9ff real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) config> intro \^[[m\^[[H\^[[J\^[[3;26H\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[6;11H\^[[m\^[[7m\^[[m\^[[7;11H\^[[m\^[[8;11H\^[[m\^[[11;3H\^[[m\^[[12;3H\^[[m\^[[13;3H\^[[m\^[[15;3H\^[[m\^[[16;3H\^[[m\^[[18;3H\^[[m\^[[19;3H\^[[m\^[[21;3H\^[[m\^[[7m\^[[m\^[[22;3H\^[[m\^[[1;1H\^[[m\^[[H\^[[Javail memory = 58945536 (57564K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc063e000. Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot" at 0xc063e084. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Preloaded image 2949120 bytes at 0xc036cd98 md1: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 Correcting Natoma config for non-SMP Correcting Natoma config for non-SMP isab0: at device 4.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x580-0x58f at device 4.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: at 10.0 irq 9 lnc0: port 0xfce0-0xfcff mem 0xfedfbc00-0xfedfbc1f irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0 lnc0: PCnet-PCI II address 00:60:b0:7b:5b:43 lnc0: driver is using old-style compatability shims fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppi0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port plip0: on ppbus0 unknown: can't assign resources adv1: Invalid baseport of 0x220 specified. Nearest valid baseport is 0x230. Failing probe. unknown0: