Re: pxeloader problem: BTX halted

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:30:53AM -0500, 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*
> 
Guys, I've verified that with my changes to sys/boot/ makefiles
I get the same binaries as before (modulo three byte difference
from the vers.c stuff) for both loader{.sym,.bin,} and pxeboot,
after doing some minor mods to current versions of makefiles so
that btxcrt.o and vers.o are linked in the same order as they
did before.  So should this issue exist (sorry, I cannot verify
the PXE booting at the moment), it must be elsewhere and doesn't
relate to my work in sys/boot/ makefiles.

Bjoern, I recall John was doing some work in libstand recently.
Can you see if reverting to the 2004/01/15 (GMT) version of
libstand cures your problem?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru_at_FreeBSD.org