Re: Current does not boot - BIOS problem?

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Niki Denev wrote:
> Marinos Ilias wrote:
>> Hello list,
>> Yesterday I upgraded to latest -CURRENT.Although the build and installing was successful, the system refuses to boot.It stops at the boot sequence with the following error:
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>> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
>> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:
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>> panic: free: guard1 fail _at_0x5195c from /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957
>> --> Press a key on the console to reboot <--
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>> I cannot figure out what kind of problem is it.It's weird that the system cannot find which disk to boot from.I didn't have such problems at past and I run CURRENT at this desktop for over a year.Also I want to add that I cannot either boot the kernel.old , as it hangs when I try :
>> kernel /boot/kernel.old/kernel
>> at boot prompt.
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>> If you have any ideas, you're welcome!
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>> Thank you.
> 
>> Ilias Marinos
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> I have exactly the same problem with recent -current sources with my
> ThinkPad X31. I had to tell the loader to boot /boot/loader.old
> and then i copied loader.old to loader and since then i have no
> problems, but i do this after each rebuild. So, it's clearly something
> wrong with the loader, but i wansn't able to find something suspicious
> looking at recent commit logs
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> 
> Niki

My other laptop a Sony VAIO PCG-U3 does not exhibit this problem,
only the ThinkPad chokes on the new loader.

Niki


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