From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 13 18:41:56 2009 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 E1C52106566C for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danallen46@airwired.net) Received: from mail.utahbroadband.com (mail.utahbroadband.com [204.14.20.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51658FC16 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danallen46@airwired.net) Received: (qmail 16982 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jun 2009 17:30:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.18?) (danallen46@airwired.net@66.29.174.6) by mail.utahbroadband.com with ESMTPA; 13 Jun 2009 17:30:07 -0000 Message-Id: From: Dan Allen To: Paul B. Mahol In-Reply-To: <3a142e750906111641w73d991a7ld22ff9a9150404e0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:41:55 -0600 References: <212AA509-6A5D-4D43-8B02-A31E636A8D40@airwired.net> <3a142e750906111641w73d991a7ld22ff9a9150404e0@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk... 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, 13 Jun 2009 18:41:57 -0000 On 11 Jun 2009, at 5:41 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > Looks like boot(8) is problematic. Okay, here is the June 13th noon update to this problem. I once again installed a May 28th build. Rebuilt world and kernel from source. Everything works great. No custom kernel, just GENERIC. I then merged in just /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 changes to June 10th. Rebuilt in /usr/src/sys/boot and installed it, no problem. Then I merged in the latest from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader, rebuilt, installed, and BOOM. DEATH TO DRIVE. Disk label GONE again. Hangs after "BIOS drive C: is disk1" at boot. Does not get to memory check, let alone to the "Welcome to FreeBSD and choose a boot option" screen. CULPRIT REVEALED: So, there is only one file change in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader from June 8th to June 10th, which kills my machine very repeatably, and that is the Makefile. Something in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile is killing my drive. What do I try next? Thanks for the help. Dan