Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:17:16 -0400 From: Scott Ullrich <sullrich@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't load kernel errors (with wierd bios messages) Message-ID: <d5992baf05090711172fdf1d28@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d5992baf05090516513164b998@mail.gmail.com> References: <d5992baf050905140916ea9e7f@mail.gmail.com> <d5992baf05090516513164b998@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/5/05, Scott Ullrich <sullrich@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/5/05, Scott Ullrich <sullrich@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello list! > > > > I'm trying to understand a problem that keeps coming up quite often > > but I honestly have no idea what is going on. > > > > In random cases after upgrading I'm seeing the message: > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0= : > > > > can't load 'kernel' > > > > Screen shot of the error in action: > > http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/CantFindKernelError.JPG > > > > Does anyone know what causes this error? > > > > Thanks in advance! >=20 > Sorry to reply to myself but wanted to pass on info that people are > asking me in private e-mails: >=20 > 1. We have tried ACPI w/o help > 2. This happens on more than one machine (last could its about 9) > 3. It always happens after the first bootup after upgrading the kernel an= d world This problem is not going away and appears to be getting worse.. Now we are seeing a similar problem after boot but the kernel panics! The panic is "panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x51984 from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader../../common/module.c:967" Can anyone shed some light on what is going on and things that I can do to prevent these problems? We would like to release pfSense (www.pfsense.com) around the same time that FreeBSD 6 releases but I'm affraid that with these problems lurking its not a good idea from a support perspective. Thanks again in advance! Scott
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