Re: pxeloader problem: BTX halted

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:33:22 -0500
On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:21 pm, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 February 2004 06:21 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:59:59AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 15 February 2004 05:54 am, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a problem with latest pxeboot which seems to "crash". The
> > > > > only thing I could read on the screen (no serial console at that
> > > > > point) had been
> > > > >
> > > > > <some register dump>
> > > > > BTX halted
> > > > >
> > > > > this seems to be in sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S
> > > > >
> > > > > I have set following in make.conf:
> > > > >
> > > > > LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=	YES
> > > > > LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT=	YES
> > > > > NOFORTH=		YES
> > > > >
> > > > > There is no keyboard attached.
> > > > >
> > > > > The last pxeboot I had been using had been from 20040125.
> > > > >
> > > > > anyone any ideas - any patch to try ?
> > > >
> > > > Try again with newer sources as I think ru_at_ has fixed a bug in his
> > > > renaming of the asm files in the bootstrap.
> > >
> > > That wasn't a bug, just a small timeframe between repocopies
> > > and necessary changes.  There was a bug in kgzldr though, where
> > > I mistakenly cause the kgzldr.o to be stripped when installing
> > > to /usr/lib.  This has been causing problems for release snapshots
> > > where loader(8) is kgzipped.
> >
> > Well, the above report is a bug that needs to be fixed then. :(  *sigh*
>
> I am currently building a new world and kernel and will be able to
> test with up-to-date sources; if the problem still occurs would the
> register dump help to solve this ?
>
> As I do not have a serial console at that point the only thing is to
> write it down by hand. I do not want to do this if not needed.

I'd rather see if you and ru_at_ can track it down to one of the options you use 
first.  If that doesn't fix it, then we can try going the register dump 
route.

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Received on Thu Feb 19 2004 - 09:51:10 UTC

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