Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:33:52 -0800 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Want one of the affected systems for your lab? (Was: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot) Message-ID: <406FCA6C-B7FE-4A39-AD0C-4A5DBC556CF9@netconsonance.com> In-Reply-To: <C6DC3DB1-40FF-4896-81DB-EF37874428AF@netconsonance.com> References: <A5A9A4D4-CD16-45FA-A2AC-62C4B5AE976D@netconsonance.com> <BEBF7B15-DECE-4872-9687-4AD4BE65DB05@netconsonance.com> <84E1EC10-5323-4A8C-AD60-31142621DB32@netconsonance.com> <200810271151.47366.jhb@freebsd.org> <C6DC3DB1-40FF-4896-81DB-EF37874428AF@netconsonance.com>
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John, I can ship you one of these machines for your own testing if you like. Or send me a public key and I can give you SSH access to the console serial port, whichever would be easiest for you to get what you need. Let me know how I can help. On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote: >>> So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to >>> boot >>> via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less. >>> >>> /boot.config: -Dh >>> Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port >>> BIOS drive A: is disk0 >>> BIOS drive C: is disk1 >>> BIOS drive D: is disk2 >>> BIOS 639kB/4062144kB available memory >>> >>> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 >>> (root@dessler.cse.b >>> >>> Plugging back in the monitor after lockup showed only a single char >>> more: >>> (root@dessler.cse.bu >> >> This confirms it is hanging in one of the two BIOS routines to >> output a >> character. One thing you can do would be to boot up and do the >> following: >> >> dd if=/dev/mem bs=0x400 count=1 of=idt.out >> dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k iseek=15 count=1 of=bios.out >> >> Then place those files some place I can fetch them. > > Both files are at http://support.netconsonance.com/freebsd/ > > FYI, this is notable -- the keyboard does not respond at the boot > prompt. I mean the menu where you can escape to the loader prompt, > with the fat freebsd ascii art. No keyboard presses are observed > here. This is also true for the boot menu on the 6.4 installation > CD too. > > No problems with 6.2 or 6.3 > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source > and other randomness > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > "
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