Can I get a committer to mark this bug as blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?

[Xin LI]

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Jo Rhett wrote:
> So boot from CD, go to LIVE filesystem, mount my root and copy only
> /boot/kernel?

Yes.

> Are there any other modules I should copy, or settings I should change?

You should probably overwrite the whole /boot/kernel directory, i.e.
rename /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.old.

BTW could you also test if 7.1-PRERELEASE exhibit the same issue?

> On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Xin LI wrote:
> Jo Rhett wrote:
>>>> This is now filed as PR 129149
>>>>
>>>>    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129149
>>>>
>>>> Given the nature of this bug, can I persuade someone to mark this as
>>>> blocking 6.4-RELEASE ?
> 
> My wild guess is that this is somehow related to SMP handling since the
> installation process would install a SMP kernel, but the default CD-ROM
> kernel is UP for 6.x.  Could you please try if you have the same problem
> with UP kernel?  (Copy from LiveCD or something)
> 
>>>> On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
>>>>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>>>> On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote:
>>>>>>> So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to boot
>>>>>>> via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /boot.config: -Dh
>>>>>>> Consoles: internal video/keyboard  serial port
>>>>>>> BIOS drive A: is disk0
>>>>>>> BIOS drive C: is disk1
>>>>>>> BIOS drive D: is disk2
>>>>>>> BIOS 639kB/4062144kB available memory
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
>>>>>>> (root at dessler.cse.b
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Plugging back in the monitor after lockup showed only a single char
>>>>>>> more:
>>>>>>> (root at dessler.cse.bu
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This confirms it is hanging in one of the two BIOS routines to
>>>>>> output a
>>>>>> character.  One thing you can do would be to boot up and do the
>>>>>> following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dd if=/dev/mem bs=0x400 count=1 of=idt.out
>>>>>> dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k iseek=15 count=1 of=bios.out
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then place those files some place I can fetch them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both files are at http://support.netconsonance.com/freebsd/
>>>>>
>>>>> FYI, this is notable -- the keyboard does not respond at the boot
>>>>> prompt.  I mean the menu where you can escape to the loader prompt,
>>>>> with the fat freebsd ascii art.  No keyboard presses are observed
>>>>> here.  This is also true for the boot menu on the 6.4 installation CD
>>>>> too.
>>>>>
>>>>> No problems with 6.2 or 6.3
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Jo Rhett
>>>>> Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
>>>>> and other randomness
>>>>>
>>>>>
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