i386/151122: [boot] BTX 1.02 crashes on boot

Guido Falsi mad at madpilot.net
Mon Jun 13 15:40:14 UTC 2011


The following reply was made to PR i386/151122; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/151122: [boot] BTX 1.02 crashes on boot
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:36:04 +0200

 After more debugging I discovered That lockup is happening in loader
 when calling bios_getmem().
 
 In there the system lockup just after calling BIOS int 0x15 function
 0xe820.
 
 This BIOS function is, I think, doing something nasty which locks up the system.
 
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 Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>


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