From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 06:22:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB0216A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:22:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm@idiom.com) Received: from delight.idiom.com (delight.idiom.com [216.240.32.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B668443D1D for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:22:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm@idiom.com) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by delight.idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6487A1F9AD1 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from idiom.com (mwm@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by idiom.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5P6MPNX032983; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:22:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@idiom.com) Received: (from mwm@localhost) by idiom.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j5P6MOGf032978; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:22:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer Message-Id: <200506250622.j5P6MOGf032978@idiom.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: 5.4 fails to find boot drive, then panics. 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, 25 Jun 2005 06:22:25 -0000 I'm trying to install 5.4-RELEASE off of CDROM on an ASUS P5S800 motherboard with a SATA drive in it. The SATA drive shows up as ad4 during the install process, and the install goes just fine. But the resulting system fails to boot. It goes through the boot sequence, draws the cute 5.x booto menu, then issues the messages: Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: panic: free: guard1 fail @0x5195c from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957 --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- Booting with debug messages doesn't change this at all. There don't appear to be any bug reports related to this problem. Checking google turns up a lot of peole who had this problem, but the only solution was a guy who had a bad disk. I checked the md5 sum on the downloaded image, and the software that I used to burn the image (Disk Utility on Mac OS X) claimed to verify the burned disk - which I believe means it did a checksum on the image and the disk. There is an AGA DVD drive in the system on the secondary master. I thought that it was getting confused by the drive numbers, and checked the bios to see if I could turn off the ATA controllers. There's apparently no way to do that. I suspect the panic is due to a bug in code that is only exercised if the boot "can't work out which disk we are booting from." So if I can solve that, the system should boot ok, and I can file a bug report for the panic. I'm hoping that I can tweak a boot config file to solve the boot problem, and that someone here knows what needs to be tweaked. Maybe a diffferent boot loader would solve the problem? Thanks,