From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 14:43:32 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 5B93516A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:43:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82A543D2F for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:43:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (ury.york.ac.uk [144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i19MhQhR007239; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:43:26 GMT Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i19MhQbJ094185; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:43:26 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost)i19MhPNT094182; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:43:26 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:43:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: Lukas Ertl In-Reply-To: <20040209205729.N644@korben.in.tern> Message-ID: <20040209223945.U93734@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <20040209133832.K40769@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> <20040209205729.N644@korben.in.tern> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean 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 22:43:32 -0000 On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote: > > 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. :-) This sounds similar to a problem I was seeing with an MSI motherboard. I also worked around it in the same way, although later discovered that a BIOS update was available which did fix it. THis motherboard was manufactured over a year ago, however. Try booting a -CURRENT CD, I seem to remember a fix going into the loader recently to fix some register trashing or something. If it works, re@ may be interested to hear about it during the preperation for 5.2.1... Gavin