Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:11:39 -0700 (PDT) From: fbibsd@yahoo.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/17870: 4.0-release consistently crashes a couple seconds into the MFSROOT floppy boot process (kern.flp seems OK) Message-ID: <200004090111.SAA00797@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 17870 >Category: kern >Synopsis: 4.0-release consistently crashes a couple seconds into the MFSROOT floppy boot process (kern.flp seems OK) >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Apr 8 18:20:02 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: fbibsd >Release: 4.0-Release CDROM set >Organization: n/a >Environment: System crashes during floppy installation while MFSROOT diskette is starting its process, so no uname -a output is yet available. >Description: Summary: 4.0-Release consistently crashes a couple seconds into the floppy boot of MFSROOT diskette. * Booting not recognized from CDROM #1 (presumably a local BIOS limitation, though I seem to recall that 3.0 could CD boot though then later releases don't, but this isn't the issue) * So: 'dd' used to make /floppies/kern.flp and /floppies/mfsroot.flp from 4.0 release CD set. * kern.flp boots normally and prompts for mfsroot.flp * mfsroot.flp inserted, <ENTER> pressed, system crashes within a few seconds (details/log below) * Problem is repeatable after cold boot / reset; first warm boot retry gave a crash register dump (not inspected); second retry (cold boot) made the system reboot shortly after MFSROOT disk usage started; third retry (cold boot) gave a somewhat differing register dump as that reported below. * floppies were first made via fdimage, then remade with dd after the first failure, so a floppy disk image error is probably not the cause of the floppy boot failures. Motherboard: FIC PA-2011 (VIA VP2 chipset) BIOS: AMI (C) 1996 626CC12 CPU: AMD K6; 233MHz SDRAM: 128 MBy in one DIMM Video: ATI MACH64 SCSI: Diamond Fireport 40UW (NCR 875 type chip) Ethernet: WD 3c905TX-B 10/100 parallel tasking, connected to 100Mbit hub port Sound: SoundBlaster 32 PnP ISA USB devices: HUB, Qtronix trackball Auto-Detecting Primary Master: IDE Hard Disk Auto-Detecting Secondary Master: ATAPI CDROM Auto-Detecting Secondary Slave: Not Detected {None} Primary Master: FA570480 Maxtor 91741U4 Ultra DMA Mode-2 S.M.A.R.T capable and status OK {17 GBy, non UDMA cable, PIO 4 selected in BIOS} Secondary Master: 1R10 Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1212 {non UDMA cable, PIO 4 selected in BIOS} Primary Slave: None Secondary Slave: None PCI System BIOS revision 2.10 detected. 51-0606-000000-00111111-071595-VP2-PA2011-T99-F Floppy Drive A: 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive B: None Serial Ports: 3f8 Parallel Ports: 378 External Cache: 512kB, Enabled AMIBIOS Date: 7/15/95 Power Management: Disabled Processor Clock: 233 MHz Display Type: EGA/VGA Hard Disks Cyl Head Sector Size LBA-Mode 32-bit-mode block-mode pio-mode Pri Master 16383 16 63 8064MB LBA On 16Sec 4 Sec Master CDROM 4 Plug And Play ISA Devices: Creative SB32 Pnp PCI Devices: Onboard PCI USB Controller Onboard PCI IDE Controller Slot 1: SCSI, IRQ 10 Slot 2: Ethernet, IRQ 9 Slot 3: VGA Bank 0-1 DRAM type: SDRAM Bank 2-3 DRAM type: None Bank 4-5 DRAM type: None ---------------------------------------------------------------------- {FreeBSD 4.0 Release CDROM set commences booting kern.flp} /boot.config: -P Keyboard: yes BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/130048kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 (root@monster.cdrom.com, Mon Mar 20 21:05:31 GMT 2000) /kernel text=0x1d581e data=0x24c60+0x1a718 | Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: [MFS root diskette inserted, ENTER pressed, then a couple seconds after MFSROOT diskette use begins:] - int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00010202 eip=00001b68 eax=0000005c ebx=0002eab4 ecx=00000003 edx=000944c4 esi=0002e9dc edi=00001000 ebp=00094498 esp=0009447c cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=ff bf a5 bb 8c f5 fd ff-6b 9f 64 63 5d 7f 2b 49 ss:esp=08 30 01 00 5c 00 00 00-b4 ea 02 00 c8 44 09 00 System halted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >How-To-Repeat: Make kern.flp and mfsroot.flp from 4.0 release CD set Insert kern.flp boot from kern.flp, until it requests mfsroot floppy insert mfsroot floppy hit enter system will crash with register dump or reboot within a few seconds >Fix: no fix discovered. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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