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Subject: i386/72211: Cannot boot
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>Number:         72211
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Cannot boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 30 19:20:23 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ivo Klaassen
>Release:        RELENG_5
>Organization:
SCITO
>Environment:
FreeBSD sos 5.3-BETA6 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 #0: Thu Sep 30 18:25:46 MEST 2004     toor@sos:/usr/obj/files1/vol/bsd/src/RELENG_5/src/sys/ASUS7N266  i386 
>Description:
      Some change in between aug the 31st en September the 6th
prevents my system from booting; I have both SCSI and ATA disks,
system boots from SCSI disk.
I get :
F1 BSD
F2 DOS
F5 drive 1

immediately after executing /boot/loader system spontaneously reboots

saved loader.old from Aug 31st works OK
loader from Sept 06 already failed
current loader still fails
>How-To-Repeat:
      make installkernel && make installworld && mergemaster &&reboot
>Fix:
         type F5 during boot then :

   Invalid partition
   No /boot/loader

   FreeBSD/i386 boot
   Default: 1:da(1,a)/kernel
   boot:

   Invalid partition
   No /kernel

   boot:

manually type 
  0:da(0,a)/boot/loader.old

et voila

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: