Re: CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp breaks loader (was Re: instant reboot when trying to load recent RELENG_5 kernel)

From: Deng XueFeng <dsnofe_at_yahoo.com.cn>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:28:51 +0800
> On up-to-date RELENG_5_3, compiling the loader with CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp
> results in an instant reboot when the loader attempts to load a kernel. 
> As the loader will preload the default kernel before presenting the boot
> prompt, there is a reboot before you even get to the boot prompt...  The
> end result is an unworkable install.  I do not see this issue on my
> Pentium III and Pentium IV systems (using "p3" and "p4" for CPUTYPE,
> respectively), although there is a similar problem reported on a Pentium M
> (have not verified CPUTYPE is being used, however).
> 
> I first noticed this issue on October 15th.  My previous build on October
> 12th worked fine.  At the time I was tracking RELENG_5, but prior to that
> I was tracking HEAD.
> 
> If other folks with Athlon XPs (or Pentium Ms) could give this a shot that
> would be great.  It would be good to know if it's a real problem or just
> my system.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon
seems like:  (I use DV get something, but not clear,  then i found the
message in dfbsd news, so put it here)

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard

int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00030206  eip=0000432e
eax=00008001  ebx=00000700  ecx=00000000  edx=0000009f
esi=00000b34  edi=00000008  ebp=00000000  esp=000003de
cs=f000  ds=3ae1  es=3ac4    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=9e3d
cs:eip=2e 0f 01 16 48 44 0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 b8 30
       00 8e c0 0f 20 c0 24 fe-0f 22 c0 eb 00 66 58 c3
ss:esp=01 80 00 00 39 42 08 00-00 00 34 0b 00 00 00 00
       00 00 04 04 00 00 00 07-00 00 9f 00 00 00 00 00
BTX halted



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Deng XueFeng <dsnofe_at_yahoo.com.cn>
Received on Sun Oct 31 2004 - 13:28:50 UTC

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