Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:15:10 +0200 From: Ian FREISLICH <if@hetzner.co.za> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: boot/loader broken? Message-ID: <E1GV02A-000Hbt-R7@hetzner.co.za> In-Reply-To: Message from Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> of "Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:05:27 %2B0400." <20061004060527.GA96434@rambler-co.ru>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:57:28AM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:00:44PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > > > Hi > > > >=20 > > > > After a build/install today, I can't boot my boxes: > > > >=20 > > > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > > > > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > > > > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > > > > BIOS 633kB/2096000kB available memory > > > >=20 > > > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > > > > (ianf@testbed, Tue Oct 3 08:22:43 SAST 2006) > > > > = > =3D > > > =20 > > > > can't load 'kernel' > > > >=20 > > > > Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. > > > > OK ls > > > > open '/' failed: input/output error > > > > OK lsdev > > > > cd devices: > > > > disk devices: > > > > disk0: BIOS drive C: > > > > pxe devices: > > > >=20 > > > > I don't know what else I can get of interest from this interface. > > > > It's happened to 2 of my test servers. They rebooted fine before > > > > the upgrade. > > > >=20 > > > Does it work if you boot with /boot/loader.old? > >=20 > > Doh! Now why didn't that occur to me? It works with loader.old. > >=20 > Could you please check if reverting sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S to > rev. 1.38 fixes your problem, and if it does, apply next revisions > one by one and tell us where it stops working? I'm currently doing this. It's version 1.41 that breaks things for me. -- Ian Freislich
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