From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 09:02:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FE416A415; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:02:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (mailhost.graphdata.co.uk [195.12.22.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51AC43DA5; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:02:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9841B11402E; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:02:46 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at graphdata.co.uk Received: from mailhost.graphdata.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhost.graphdata.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id M1y3UGZy9Z9B; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:02:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.0.86] (gdc083.internal.graphdata.co.uk [192.168.0.86]) by mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B34114020; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:02:43 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <451A3E33.8010805@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:02:43 +0100 From: Dominic Marks User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060919) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <15af975d0609212321r29fdd287p462ae0f2b7e404b4@mail.gmail.com> <15af975d0609220725s1206d7ebr53589adbc1b9c17@mail.gmail.com> <4513F5B0.9030300@goodforbusiness.co.uk> <200609261305.12224.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200609261305.12224.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: CyberSans AirBort , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug on BTX 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, 27 Sep 2006 09:02:55 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > > Hmm, are you willing to test a change that should fix that? If so, try > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch You'll need to do > a 'make clean && make && make install' in /sys/boot after applying, and if > the make install suceeeds, do a 'bsdlabel -B ad0s1' (replace ad0s1 with the > actual slice you boot from). I think it should work (I think it was tested a > while ago, but boot2 used to not fit, now it does though). Be warned though > that if it doesn't work, you won't be able to boot from your disk. If that > happens and you have a 6.x disc 1 lying around, you can boot into rescue mode > and re-run 'bsdlabel' and move boot/loader.old to boot/loader on the root > partition to get your system back. Ideally you'd try this on a system with > data you don't care about (i.e., it's ok to just do a reinstall if it is > hosed). > Hi John. I tested the patch on my -CURRENT box, both with the BIOS DMA enabled and disabled and I can confirm it works successfully. Test system is was a Compaq EVO D510 CMT desktop. Thanks John, -- Dominic