Re: BTX problems

On Monday 22 August 2005 01:19 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Monday 22 August 2005 12:33 pm, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:16:51 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > Here they are.
>
> It's very strange.  It seems SM entry and DMI structures are all sane.
> I don't understand why it happens. :-( I just wrote a qucik-and-dirty
> userland wrapper for smbios.c, which is attached.
>
> SMBIOS entry: 0x000f00a0
> DMI structures: length = 1534, paddr = 0x000f0640, count = 49
> smbios.bios.vendor="American Megatrends Inc."
> smbios.bios.version="0700xx "
> smbios.bios.reldate="11/14/2001"
> smbios.system.maker="Supermicro"
> smbios.system.product="P3TDE6"
> smbios.system.version="1234567890"
> smbios.planar.maker="Supermicro"
> smbios.planar.product="P3TDE6"
> smbios.planar.version="1234567890"
> smbios.chassis.maker="Supermicro"
> smbios.chassis.version="P3TDE6"
>
> Is it possible that PTOV() is not working somehow???  I need help
> here.

Perhaps give ken_at_ a patch with some printf's added to figure out how far it 
gets into smbios_detect() before it dies?

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