Re: BTX problems

From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:16:51 -0400
On Monday 22 August 2005 11:57 am, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:37:25 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 August 2005 01:02 am, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 13:39:48 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > There haven't been a whole lot of changes.  My guess would be
> > > > the recently added smbios support.  You can probably just
> > > > comment out the call to smbios_detect() in
> > > > sys/boot/i386/loader/main.c as a simple test for that.  It
> > > > could also possibly be the multiple console support in which
> > > > case it would be easiest to just step your sys/boot tree back
> > > > using CVS.  The good news is that sys/boot is largely
> > > > self-contained so you can step it back while keeping the rest
> > > > of the tree up to date for testing purposes at least.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the tips!
> > >
> > > Commenting out smbios_detect() did the trick.  The loader works
> > > fine after that.
> > >
> > > So now what?  Is there a way to fix it so it won't crash on my
> > > system?
> >
> > So, I guess I broke it, then.  Can you install
> > ports/sysutils/dmidecode and send me dmidecode output?
>
> Sure, here it is.

Okay, it looks good so far.  Can you do:

dd if=/dev/mem of=dmi.dat bs=1 count=1534 skip=984640
dd if=/dev/mem of=smbios.dat bs=1 count=65536 skip=983040

and send me dmi.dat and smbios.dat, please?

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim
Received on Mon Aug 22 2005 - 14:17:18 UTC

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