Freebsd 7.2-RC boot problem

[Paulo Fragoso]

Em 28/04/2009 09:52, Paulo Fragoso escreveu:
> Em 27/04/2009 14:16, Ken Smith escreveu:
>> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:10 -0300, Paulo Fragoso wrote:
>>> Em 27/04/2009 12:05, Ken Smith escreveu:
>>>> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 11:03 -0300, Paulo Fragoso wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>> I can't boot on cdrom sata, this problem doesn't exist in older 
>>>>> releases.
>>>>>
>>>>> My motherboard is
>>>>> Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2
>>>>>
>>>>> On FreeBSD 7.1 my cdrom drive is detected this way:
>>>>> acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22NS30/1.01> at ata3-master SATA150
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>> Just checking - is *everything* the same?  For example is the media 
>>>> the
>>>> same?  Depending on a variety of things I've had issues with 
>>>> rewritable
>>>> media versus write-once media, etc.
>>>>
>>>> The machine I test the release builds on before uploading them has a
>>>> Gigabyte motherboard (G31M-ES2L) with a sata drive in it so it's not a
>>>> generic "sata doesn't work" issue:
>>>>
>>>> acd0: DVDROM <Optiarc DVD-ROM DDU1675S/1.10> at ata0-slave SATA150
>>>>
>>>> If none of that helps we'd need more information about how far it gets
>>>> before it stops.
>>>>   
>>> I can say there is a problem to boot with cdrom since 7.2-BETA1.
>>>
>>> All system is same, all older version can boot in this machine: 6.1, 
>>> 6.2, ...,7.1, etc. amd64 or i386.
>>>
>>> I've burnt 03 media to test 7.2-RC2, one cd-rw burnt with cdrecord 
>>> and two cd-r burnt first with burncd and last was burnt with cdrecord.
>>>
>>> What I can do to help this release?
>>>
>>
>> We need more information about how far it gets before it stops.  Does it
>> seem like it attempts the boot off the CD at all or does it just fall
>> through to booting off the hard drive?
>
> It try boot from cdrom and after a little time it boots from next device.
>
>> If it does attempt to boot off
>> the CD does it lock up with no messages?  If there are messages what are
>> the last few things it says?
>>
>
> It doesn't print any message and after that short time BIOS try next 
> device from boot order.
>
> Paulo. 

If I try boot from 7.1-RELEASE cdrom this mensagens are printed after POST:

<POST>
Verifing BMI Pool Data ........
Boot from CD/DVD : CD Loader 1.2

Buildong the boot loader argumetns
<it boots from cdrom>
...

using 7.2-RC2 cdrom:

<POST>
Verifing BMI Pool Data ........
Boot from CD/DVD : (4,35 seconds)

NVIDIA Boot Agent 244.0538
<it boots from network>
...

Paulo.