Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:45:32 +1100 From: "Andrew Dean" <andrewdean@connexus.net.au> To: "Bruce R. Montague" <brucem@mail.cruzio.com>, <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PicoBSD boot problems? Message-ID: <001f01c28453$e249e200$30af22cb@andrew17548> References: <200211041719.gA4HJiU00556@mail.cruzio.com>
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Thanks Bruce, I think i've figured it out, But can't try it till i get home... The 2 machines it is working on are p3's.. the 2 that it doesn't are p1's... the kernel has all the cputypes's in there but i have a "CPUTYPE=i686" in my make.conf which im guessing is the problem... Can't test it till i get home but this is my guess at the moment. Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce R. Montague" <brucem@mail.cruzio.com> To: <andrewdean@connexus.net.au>; <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:19 AM Subject: Re: PicoBSD boot problems? > > Re: > > > On Machine C it gets to "Uncompressing...done" then reboots ... > > Was the FreeBSD 4.7 from a current CVS or a Release? > Has FreeBSD ever run on the machines that do not boot? > Are you running the same config on all 4 machines, or > have you tailored the configs (devices, etc.) to the > machines? > What are the BIOSes? > > > > Any ideas? > > Just now I have a slightly similar problem with > PicoBSD under 5.0-current that seems to be due to > a recent patch to src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c > in "getmemsize()": > > "Change method to determine base memory size. > Try INT 15H/E820H first, then fall back to the old compatibility > method (INT 12H). > This is a workaround for newer machines which have broken INT 12H BIOS > service implementation." > > It looks like this was also recently MFC'd to 4.7. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c > > The new scheme seems to break something wrt > a NatSemi XpressROM BIOS :) > > - bruce > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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