pxeloader problem: BTX halted

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Thursday 19 February 2004 06:21 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:59:59AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Sunday 15 February 2004 05:54 am, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a problem with latest pxeboot which seems to "crash". The only
> > > > thing I could read on the screen (no serial console at that point) had
> > > > been
> > > >
> > > > <some register dump>
> > > > BTX halted
> > > >
> > > > this seems to be in sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S
> > > >
> > > > I have set following in make.conf:
> > > >
> > > > LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=	YES
> > > > LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT=	YES
> > > > NOFORTH=		YES
> > > >
> > > > There is no keyboard attached.
> > > >
> > > > The last pxeboot I had been using had been from 20040125.
> > > >
> > > > anyone any ideas - any patch to try ?
> > >
> > > Try again with newer sources as I think ru@ has fixed a bug in his
> > > renaming of the asm files in the bootstrap.
> >
> > That wasn't a bug, just a small timeframe between repocopies
> > and necessary changes.  There was a bug in kgzldr though, where
> > I mistakenly cause the kgzldr.o to be stripped when installing
> > to /usr/lib.  This has been causing problems for release snapshots
> > where loader(8) is kgzipped.
>
> Well, the above report is a bug that needs to be fixed then. :(  *sigh*

I am currently building a new world and kernel and will be able to
test with up-to-date sources; if the problem still occurs would the
register dump help to solve this ?

As I do not have a serial console at that point the only thing is to
write it down by hand. I do not want to do this if not needed.

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