From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 12:24:30 2008 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 5DE67106567C for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EA78FC0C for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 415481CC033; Thu, 22 May 2008 05:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 05:24:30 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: James Seward Message-ID: <20080522122430.GA43122@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <720051dc0805220159n23eb6205yfcf9450be7af5c77@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <720051dc0805220159n23eb6205yfcf9450be7af5c77@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: BTX loader hangs after version info 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: Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:30 -0000 On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:59:47AM +0100, James Seward wrote: > Two days ago I csup'd my desktop at home, which was running RELENG_7 > from about 7.0-RELEASE time, to bring it up-to-date (still on > RELENG_7). I followed my usual buildkernel/world procedure (the usual > one) which has worked fine all the way since 5.x. After installing > kernel and restarting in single user, it was working fine. However, > following installworld it will not boot. > > It stops immediately after "BTX loader 1.00 BTX version 1.02", but > with the cursor on the line *above* the first "B". Nothing futher > happens, but the system responds to Ctrl-Alt-Del. This sounds like a regression in the recent BTX fixes which were done by John Baldwin on March 18th. Strange, since those fixes addressed booting issues lots of users were having with BTX. See the very bottom of the below page, "BTX crashes on start": http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues After installworld, did you happen to use bsdlabel -B? > Any suggestions/advice for what I can try next, or what I can do to > help the troubleshooting process? > > My desktop is an Athlon64 but I am using i386, on an Asus A8V-E Deluxe board. I've CC'd John here, who might have some ideas. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |