From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 15:28:35 2004 Return-Path: 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 77CCD16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:28:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cpc2-cove3-6-0-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com (cpc2-cove3-6-0-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com [81.107.10.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7791543D46 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from gamma.private.lan (gamma.private.lan [192.168.0.12]) ESMTP id i0CNSSkw091989; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:28:32 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) From: ian j hart To: Doug White Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:28:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1523970523.1062.6.camel@linuxppc> <20040112144706.A54897@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040112144706.A54897@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401122328.28414.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:28:35 -0000 On Monday 12 January 2004 10:48 pm, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Kevin Berrien wrote: > > I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled > > "4.9 install buglet". > > > > I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% > > of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes > > up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever. To test, I made 3 > > installs without issue using 4.8. So first, I'd like to confirm the bug > > report, and ask the following. > > Please qualify "reboots continutally forever." It reboots after printing > the F1: FreeBSD message, or after you press a key, or what? > > This sounds like a BIOS issue. boot0 uses only BIOS calls to do its work. > Lots of problems like this are also caused by bad drive geometry. > > What is the partition layout on the disk(s) in the system? Hardware > description? Here's my original post for comparison: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200312031933.25176.ianjhart -- ian j hart http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031016