Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:42:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Roger L. Beeman" <rlb@subako.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: 5.3 Loader Too Fragile Message-ID: <200411162242.iAGMg32e014547@koishi.subako.org>
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Can someone help me build a hardwired version of the loader that will let me boot my system? System is a 440LX dual CPU DEC Personal Workstation Station 333i+. There are no IDE devices. CD and HD are SCSI on 2940U2W controller. I saw in the code that this is bad news if guessing is required. Couldn't boot from floppy or CDROM, I couldn't even get them to take any of numerous variations of switching console from vidconsole to comconsole to capture error messages, so I built hard drive on another system. I get: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 509kB/130048kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Thu Nov 4 22:29:29 UTC 2004) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x22c3e0 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 509kB/130048kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Thu Nov 4 22:29:29 UTC 2004) 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 @ 0x517c4 from [line folded for mail] /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957 --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- I had similar problems with 5.2.1 but was able to resolve them by upgrading to March 25th 5-Current, so I am reasonably sure the hardware is in good shape. Thanks, Roger L. Beeman
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