Current does not boot - BIOS problem?

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 6/19/07, Marinos Ilias <marinosi at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> Hello list,
> Yesterday I upgraded to latest -CURRENT.Although the build and installing was successful, the system refuses to boot.It stops at the boot sequence with the following error:
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> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:
>
> panic: free: guard1 fail @0x5195c from /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:957
> --> Press a key on the console to reboot <--
>
>
> I cannot figure out what kind of problem is it.It's weird that the system cannot find which disk to boot from.I didn't have such problems at past and I run CURRENT at this desktop for over a year.Also I want to add that I cannot either boot the kernel.old , as it hangs when I try :
> kernel /boot/kernel.old/kernel
> at boot prompt.
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> If you have any ideas, you're welcome!
>
> Thank you.
>
> Ilias Marinos

Maybe it's related to IBM new acpi changes.


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