ia64/66605: mountroot> prompt pressing enter gives panic

Muthu Mohan. T muthu_t at dell.com
Thu May 13 04:30:20 PDT 2004


>Number:         66605
>Category:       ia64
>Synopsis:       mountroot> prompt pressing enter gives panic
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ia64
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 13 04:30:19 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Muthu Mohan. T
>Release:        5.2 - 20040502 snapshot
>Organization:
DELL
>Environment:
>Description:
In the mountroot> prompt, just press the enter without giving any input.
It gives kernel panic.

>How-To-Repeat:
1. Setup the serial console.
2. Install FreeBSD.
3. Reboot 
4. Create a EFI Boot Menu using EFI maintanence menu.
5. Boot into FreeBSD (Still use Serial Console).
6. Kernel will drops you in mountroot> prompt.
7. Just press enter without giving any input. (or 2 or 3 backspace and enter also gives kernel panic)
8. Kernel will panic and you will be dropped to db> shell.




>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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