Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:35:24 +0300 From: Niki Denev <nike_d@cytexbg.com> To: Marinos Ilias <marinosi@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current does not boot - BIOS problem? Message-ID: <467813DC.9090103@cytexbg.com> In-Reply-To: <20070619150751.GA8348@ceid.upatras.gr> References: <20070619150751.GA8348@ceid.upatras.gr>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marinos Ilias wrote: > Hello list, > Yesterday I upgraded to latest -CURRENT.Although the build and installing was successful, the system refuses to boot.It stops at the boot sequence with the following error: > > > 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 /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957 > --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- > > > I cannot figure out what kind of problem is it.It's weird that the system cannot find which disk to boot from.I didn't have such problems at past and I run CURRENT at this desktop for over a year.Also I want to add that I cannot either boot the kernel.old , as it hangs when I try : > kernel /boot/kernel.old/kernel > at boot prompt. > > > If you have any ideas, you're welcome! > > Thank you. > > Ilias Marinos > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I have exactly the same problem with recent -current sources with my ThinkPad X31. I had to tell the loader to boot /boot/loader.old and then i copied loader.old to loader and since then i have no problems, but i do this after each rebuild. So, it's clearly something wrong with the loader, but i wansn't able to find something suspicious looking at recent commit logs Niki -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGeBPcHNAJ/fLbfrkRAveBAKCCWHt/yudZf8LbEeFygT0XHLmHCwCgk/vh LKkBwHYfufqBiYfo4xPKsck= =iyft -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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