Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

Jo Rhett jrhett at netconsonance.com
Mon Nov 24 14:12:37 PST 2008


So boot from CD, go to LIVE filesystem, mount my root and copy only / 
boot/kernel?

Are there any other modules I should copy, or settings I should change?

On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Xin LI wrote:
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> Jo Rhett wrote:
>> This is now filed as PR 129149
>>
>>    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129149
>>
>> Given the nature of this bug, can I persuade someone to mark this as
>> blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?
>
> My wild guess is that this is somehow related to SMP handling since  
> the
> installation process would install a SMP kernel, but the default CD- 
> ROM
> kernel is UP for 6.x.  Could you please try if you have the same  
> problem
> with UP kernel?  (Copy from LiveCD or something)
>
>> 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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