6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

[Jo Rhett]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Milan Obuch wrote:
> I did not investigate on this issue too much, but there is an  
> workaround -
> copy older /boot/loader over newer one. In my case, I am rebuilding  
> whole
> world often, and now /boot/loader seems to not build correctly for  
> me. Older
> one is ~ 250 kB, rebuilt will be ~ 185 kB, and freezes.

6.4's boot loader is 221k
6.3's boot loader is 217k

Copying 6.3 boot loader to the 6.4 solved the keyboard lockup problem,  
but it still panics during the boot.  At last now I get the entire  
panic to the serial console so I can cut/paste.


cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0


Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
fault virtual address   = 0x0
fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xc06d01cd
stack pointer           = 0x28:0xc1020ad8
frame pointer           = 0x28:0xc1020ae4
code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                         = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process         = 0 (swapper)
trap number             = 12
panic: page fault
cpuid = 0
Uptime: 1s
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort


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Jo Rhett
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