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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:


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