How to debug loader(8)

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 02.08.2012 15:30, Sergey Listopad wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have as issue with booting FreeBSD on retro server.
> loader(8) stuck during the boot (more details
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAO_2TxM4_7YpPV9iTXeX6S7w4T1zqiZJa0ewe5KKiusdmNiVnw)
> 
> How can I debug why loader(8) is stuck. What information may be helpful?
Hi.

It seems that biosdisk driver can't detect any disks except floppy.
You can add some printfs to the bd_init() and bd_int13probe() functions
in the sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c file. Then recompile the loader
and test. Also you can try to use grub loader, afaik it has a bit more
quirks to the known problems. If it will work, we can try to fix our
loader too.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov