From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 12:00:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3074E16A4E4 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mail.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A06D43D2F for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from l.ertl@univie.ac.at) Received: from wireless (adslle.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.102.11]) i19K0XkN1344704; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:00:35 +0100 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:00:23 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl To: Doug White In-Reply-To: <20040209114534.B48001@carver.gumbysoft.com> Message-ID: <20040209205729.N644@korben.in.tern> References: <20040209133832.K40769@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> <20040209114534.B48001@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: imap 4245; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1-RC iso won't boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 20:00:43 -0000 On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote: > > > > I've had this problem on several boxen with the 5.2-R iso, and now I see > > > it again with the 5.2.1-RC iso: > > > > > > I try to boot it, it comes to the "Boot from CD" prompt, and as soon as it > > > switches to the loader I see some kind of a registry dump that seems to > > > loop endlessly (I can't really tell what it says because it loops too > > > fast). > > > > > > I had no problems booting a 5.1-R iso, so, was there a change in the > > > loader code? > > > > I forgot to mention: this is a no-name P4 box with an MSI board, the CDROM > > identifies itself as > > > > acd0: CDROM at ata1-master PIO4 > > Sounds like a BIOS bug. Have you upgraded the BIOS recently? Tried a > different disc, in case it was corrupted? :) No, I didn't upgrade the BIOS, and IIRC there's no update available. Of course I thought I might have gotten a coaster :-), but I've tried 5.2-R, 5.2-R miniinst, and 5.2.1-RC, all of them show the same behaviour on at least three machines of the same kind. As stated, the 5.1 iso boots fine. We have gotten around by booting from a 5.1 CD and then switching to a 5.2 CD, but this isn't really elegant. :-) regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Vienna University Computer Center Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 University of Vienna http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/