From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 16:34:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DA61065688 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 16:34:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD958FC14 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 16:34:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id p76so851952pyb.10 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 09:34:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=jRcUEX8QPRvZZUpmH84bzDxCwFu4qDyf7E3r0OD6yl4=; b=B9AJqH5No8Ty7UbdWgOQIJ+uYB9H8fMr2lFD/7PDLTumQYvjkYYIMN9RUDfcBjXbWKOpCKb8z5PuJFkIm4TOZvbjKWon4Ocl3K0D54vUDuSdOrY5trHH/tCCpwbTYEmIgAwzJLx/Ky6EhyB7gDOWhp/PAkcCwBojZ+NjjWFlXd0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=iq6G1wy955nVBCecTQJQQOv1suOzADqWQY/C/prg4yvfSJS55Lm//BTV0uhmX2yYl+sUjVSwWgvYY5OMvz4v8BUiHVaDqX+4ezaNtsjhu+K7e15IeVADq6ZatLjI9HNpnQkQanUB1U+sAF2CMZxFS6YnPqWPekYWjRmm5aHYLpM= Received: by 10.114.197.1 with SMTP id u1mr2370932waf.10.1211646897906; Sat, 24 May 2008 09:34:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.91.7 with HTTP; Sat, 24 May 2008 09:34:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <720051dc0805240934o211c522eha6888dc55ebd928f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 17:34:57 +0100 From: "James Seward" To: "John Baldwin" In-Reply-To: <200805231811.01936.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <720051dc0805220159n23eb6205yfcf9450be7af5c77@mail.gmail.com> <200805230829.09524.jhb@freebsd.org> <20080523132645.GO29770@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <200805231811.01936.jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Kostik Belousov , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: BTX loader hangs after version info 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: Sat, 24 May 2008 16:34:59 -0000 `On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:11 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > [patch] I have not yet tried this patch, but here is my progress so far: * Rolling back to 7.0-RELEASE made it worse - now after choosing FreeBSD from grub the machine would immediately reboot. * I booted with the CD again and came forward to RELENG_7. This still caused an immediate reboot. * I booted with the CD and replaced grub with "boot0cfg -B" (bsdlabel, which I tried earlier, had no effect). This fixed it, mostly. My desktop now boots fine and completes normal startup. It even starts X. However, from the moment I press F1 to choose FreeBSD to the moment it's done booting, all I see on the screen is "BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02" and the cursor blinking below it. My only clues that it's booting at the time are disk activity, and the cursor changing from a flashing underline to a solid block (which it always has as the kernel proper takes over). The next thing I see is "FreeBSD/i386 (hostname.goes.here) (ttyv0)". I have also noticed that I don't get any output when I restart - no rc.d scripts telling me things are stopping, no vnodes syncing, nothing. It's apparently happening though, as everything is starting/stopping/umounting correctly. I don't see that I have anything configured to boot to serial rather than the console, but is there anything I can do/check to make sure this definitely isn't happening? Unfortunately, putting a cable on the serial port is not an option as I currently do not own one suitable :) Thanks, James