7.1 new install halts on BTX error

David Adam zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Mar 8 01:22:26 PST 2009


On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 10:13:46 pm David Adam wrote:
> > I upgraded my 7.0 system to 7.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update only to find 
> > that it no longer boots correctly, instead crashing with a BTX backtrace. 
> > If I break to the loader prompt and use 'ls /boot', I also get a 
> > backtrace.
> > 
<snip>
> I wonder if your stack is growing into the heap (the GPT stuff made the
> loader a bit bigger).  You can try something like this:

Hi John,

I tired -CURRENT when the previous changes were committed (see my previous 
email on Mar 1). I can confirm that -CURRENT with that patch applied now 
boots fine on my system.

Thanks,

David Adam
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au



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