From owner-freebsd-small Mon Nov 4 14:47:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E861237B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:47:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from power.connexus.net.au (power.connexus.net.au [203.12.22.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E1543E75 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:47:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrewdean@connexus.net.au) Received: from andrew17548 ([203.34.175.48]) by power.connexus.net.au (8.12.4/8.11.6) with SMTP id gA4MjgkW038386; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:45:43 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andrewdean@connexus.net.au) XAntiVirus: This e-mail has been scanned for viruses via the Connexus Internet Service Message-ID: <001f01c28453$e249e200$30af22cb@andrew17548> From: "Andrew Dean" To: "Bruce R. Montague" , References: <200211041719.gA4HJiU00556@mail.cruzio.com> Subject: Re: PicoBSD boot problems? Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:45:32 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: ; 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