Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:22:30 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@freebsd.org>, Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net> Subject: RE: Laptop boot problem in current with GENERIC & GENERIC.hints Message-ID: <200006290222.TAA04480@john.baldwin.cx>
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On 27-Jun-00 John Baldwin wrote: > > On 27-Jun-00 Edwin Culp wrote: >> I have 5 machines running current. All are booting fine with the >> changes made on June 12, with the exception of a k-6 laptop. I have >> been booting the kernel.works since the changes and can't seem to get >> something right. I have tried with my original kernel configuration and >> now have been trying with the GENERIC configuration and GENERIC.hints. >> When I try to boot with my new kernel I get: >> >> BTX loader 1.0 BTX version is 1.01 >> Console: internal video/keyboard >> BIOS drive A: is disk0 >> BIOS drive B: is disk1 >> BIOS 639kB/97280kB available memory >> >> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 >> root@casa.local.net Mon June 26 12:37:44 PDT 2000 >> >> int=0000000d err=00000000 eft=00010046 eip=000092eb >> eax=000000fb ebx=00000000 ecx=00000152 edx=000003f6 >> esi=000fbc92 edi=000f0000 ebp=000017b4 esp=000017b4 >> cs:eip=0f 32 89 45 1c 89 55 14-46 eb cf 80 65 31 fd eb > > RDMSR instruction. It's trying to read an MSR (Model > Specific Register) from the CPU. In this case, one that > is not documented in Intel's manuals. Thus, it is either > an undocmented MSR or a K6-only MSR. > >> ss:esp=08 00 00 00 1c 9c 00 00-fe 0e 00 00 d4 17 00 00 >> System halted >> >> I copied this manually since I don't have a console on the laptop. >> >> Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > Rev 1.18 of sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.s should fix this. Try > doing an ftp install of a really recent snap from > current.FreeBSD.org. Augh! I found out that actually rev 1.18 contained a bug causing this problem. Rev 1.19 of btx.s should actually fix this. Sorry. -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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