Want one of the affected systems for your lab? (Was: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot)

Jo Rhett jrhett at netconsonance.com
Thu Nov 20 09:33:56 PST 2008


John, I can ship you one of these machines for your own testing if you  
like.  Or send me a public key and I can give you SSH access to the  
console serial port, whichever would be easiest for you to get what  
you need.

Let me know how I can help.

On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote:
>>> So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to  
>>> boot
>>> via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less.
>>>
>>> /boot.config: -Dh
>>> Consoles: internal video/keyboard  serial port
>>> BIOS drive A: is disk0
>>> BIOS drive C: is disk1
>>> BIOS drive D: is disk2
>>> BIOS 639kB/4062144kB available memory
>>>
>>> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
>>> (root at dessler.cse.b
>>>
>>> Plugging back in the monitor after lockup showed only a single char
>>> more:
>>> (root at dessler.cse.bu
>>
>> This confirms it is hanging in one of the two BIOS routines to  
>> output a
>> character.  One thing you can do would be to boot up and do the  
>> following:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/mem bs=0x400 count=1 of=idt.out
>> dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k iseek=15 count=1 of=bios.out
>>
>> Then place those files some place I can fetch them.
>
> Both files are at http://support.netconsonance.com/freebsd/
>
> FYI, this is notable -- the keyboard does not respond at the boot  
> prompt.  I mean the menu where you can escape to the loader prompt,  
> with the fat freebsd ascii art.  No keyboard presses are observed  
> here.  This is also true for the boot menu on the 6.4 installation  
> CD too.
>
> No problems with 6.2 or 6.3
>
> -- 
> Jo Rhett
> Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
> and other randomness
>
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