Running 11.3 i386, cannot boot 11.4 or 12.1

[Charles Lecklider]

I saw 11.3 will be EOL soon, so I thought I'd try 11.4 and 12.1.

Unfortunately, neither work.


Trying to boot 11.4-RELEASE fails very early:

Booting...
int=00000006  err=00000000  efl=00010002  eip=c0ba6fa2
eax=00000001  ebx=0201ec00  ecx=00000000  edx=c19ef00c
esi=c19eebb4  edi=c19ee920  ebp=c201fd08  esp=c19ee584
cs=0008  ds=0010  es=0010    fs=0010  gs=0010  ss=0010
cs:eip=0f 45 d1 c1 e0 04 89 56-20 66 89 46 26 a1 50 2b
       95 c1 89 46 28 5e 5d c3-90 90 90 90 90 90 55 89
ss:eip=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 8c e5 9e c1
       00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
BTX halted


Tying to boot 12.1-RELEASE it gets further but still dies (I think just
after looking at one of the SATA cards - if this info isn't enough I'll
video it to find out):

Fatal trap 30: UNKNOWN while in kernel mode
cpuid = 1: apic id = 01
error code             = 0
instruction pointer    = 0x20:0x1025860
stack pointer          = 0x20:0x6758c70
frame pointer          = 0x20:0x6758cb4
code segment           = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                       = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags       = interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0
current process        = 11 (idle: cpu1)
trap number            = 30
panic: UNKNOWN
cpuid = 1
time = 1
KDB: stack backtrace:
#0 0x103c50e at kdb_backtrace+0x4e
#1 0xff6001 at vpanic+0x121
#2 0xff5ed4 at panic+0x14
#3 0x155cf0e at trap_fatal+0x34e
#4 0x155c392 at trap+0xd2
#5 0xffc0316d at PTDpde+0x4175
#6 0xfbc8da at fork_exit+0x6a
#7 0xffc033ca at PTDpde+0x43d2
Uptime: 1s


The latest 12.1 snapshot behaves similarly to 11.4-RELEASE:

Booting...
int=00000006  err=00000000  efl=00010002  eip=0153d9c5
eax=02180564  ebx=00059354  ecx=00000000  edx=008003bf
esi=01f0e474  edi=01b420c8  ebp=01b42038  esp=00000000
cs=0008  ds=0010  es=0010    fs=0010  gs=0010  ss=0010
cs:eip=0f 45 f0 a1 88 20 b4 01-85 c0 0f 45 f0 81 c6 ff
       ff 3f 00 81 e6 00 00 c0-ff 89 35 48 60 f0 01 8d
ss:esp=6f ef 00 f0 6f ef 00 f0-c3 e2 00 f0 6f ef 00 f0
       6f ef 00 f0 54 ff 00 f0-68 84 00 f0 6f ef 00 f0
BTX halted


Clearly something got changed in 12.1 between release and the latest
snapshot which has also been backported to 11.4.


So, for now I'm stuck on 11.3.


Hardware is a little old, but has run every version of FreeBSD from
4.something [1] (don't remember exactly), so I'd quite like to keep it
going. I can grab the full dmesg from 11.3 if necessary, but the
highlights are:

CPU: Pentium/P55C (232.68-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x543  Family=0x5  Model=0x4  Stepping=3
  Features=0x8003bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,APIC,MMX>
real memory  = 536870912 (512 MB)
avail memory = 494088192 (471 MB)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
hifn0 mem
0xe001a000-0xe001afff,0xe0018000-0xe0019fff,0xe0000000-0xe0007fff irq 15
at device 17.0 on pci0
hifn0: Hifn 7955, rev 0, 32KB dram, pll=0x801<ext clk, 4x mult>
siis0: <SiI3124 SATA controller> port 0x6400-0x640f mem
0xe001c000-0xe001c07f,0xe0008000-0xe000ffff irq 12 at device 18.0 on pci0
siis1: <SiI3124 SATA controller> port 0x6800-0x680f mem
0xe001b000-0xe001b07f,0xe0010000-0xe0017fff irq 10 at device 19.0 on pci0
xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x6c00-0x6c7f mem
0xe001d000-0xe001d07f irq 11 at device 20.0 on pci0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc9fff,0xcc000-0xd0fff,0xd1000-0xd5fff pnpid
ORM0000 on isa0


Any assistance would be gratefully received!

-C



[1] It was running Windows before then, but I think it's feeling better now.