From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 13:33:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B836016A41F for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:33:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndenev@totalterror.net) Received: from sellinet.net (galileo.sellinet.net [82.199.192.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB83F13C489 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:33:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndenev@totalterror.net) Received: (qmail 12761 invoked by uid 1009); 20 Jun 2007 09:26:44 +0300 Received: from ndenev@totalterror.net by galileo by uid 1002 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 3.0.3. Clear:RC:1(82.199.197.152):. Processed in 0.034276 secs); 20 Jun 2007 06:26:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ndenev.totalterror.net) (82.199.197.152) by galileo.sellinet.net with SMTP; 20 Jun 2007 09:26:44 +0300 Received: (qmail 44938 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2007 00:25:39 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by ndenev.totalterror.net with SMTP; 20 Jun 2007 00:25:39 +0300 Message-ID: <467849D3.9010901@totalterror.net> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:25:39 +0300 From: Niki Denev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Niki Denev References: <20070619150751.GA8348@ceid.upatras.gr> <467813DC.9090103@cytexbg.com> In-Reply-To: <467813DC.9090103@cytexbg.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 OpenPGP: id=F2DB7EB9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:47:07 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current does not boot - BIOS problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:33:28 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Niki Denev wrote: > 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 My other laptop a Sony VAIO PCG-U3 does not exhibit this problem, only the ThinkPad chokes on the new loader. Niki -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGeEnTHNAJ/fLbfrkRAmGrAJsHb3DQBKdga8eZjpq6xsBoi6cPHgCgnerF /VJx+R2wc3ByMwGOb4W0ymE= =T3rl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----