Re: boot/loader broken?

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:05:27 +0400
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:57:28AM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:00:44PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > After a build/install today, I can't boot my boxes:
> > > 
> > > BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.01
> > > Consoles: internal video/keyboard
> > > BIOS drive C: is disk0
> > > BIOS 633kB/2096000kB available memory
> > > 
> > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> > > (ianf_at_testbed, Tue Oct  3 08:22:43 SAST 2006)
> > >                                                                          =
> >        
> > > can't load 'kernel'
> > > 
> > > Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
> > > OK ls
> > > open '/' failed: input/output error
> > > OK lsdev
> > > cd devices:
> > > disk devices:
> > >     disk0:   BIOS drive C:
> > > pxe devices:
> > > 
> > > I don't know what else I can get of interest from this interface.
> > > It's happened to 2 of my test servers.  They rebooted fine before
> > > the upgrade.
> > > 
> > Does it work if you boot with /boot/loader.old?
> 
> Doh!  Now why didn't that occur to me?  It works with loader.old.
> 
Could you please check if reverting sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S to
rev. 1.38 fixes your problem, and if it does, apply next revisions
one by one and tell us where it stops working?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

Received on Wed Oct 04 2006 - 04:05:19 UTC

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