New BTX bootloader hangs my box

[Ralf van der Enden]

Luigi,

It's an AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz (single core) on an AOpen motherboard.
For more system info you can check http://sysinfo.cainites.net

Thanks for the /boot/loader suggestion.

Cheers,
Ralf

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From: "Luigi Rizzo" <rizzo at iet.unipi.it>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:16 AM
To: "Ralf van der Enden" <Ralf.vanderEnden at deltares.nl>
Cc: <stable at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: New BTX bootloader hangs my box

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 08:25:23PM +0100, Ralf van der Enden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently upgraded my box from FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE.
>
> Now, whenever I reboot my machine it hangs during the boot proces.
>
> I have a Fasttrak TX2 100 card in my system which is used for booting 
> FreeBSD and it shows fine while it's searching for attached drives, but 
> after it loads the MBR the system shows the Fasttrak BIOS again and locks 
> up everything. The only way to resolve this is:
>
> 1) Turn off the system with the power button (reset button and 
> ctrl-alt-delete don't work)
> 2) Turn it back on and go into the Fasttrak BIOS setup. (This is required, 
> because if I don't it'll get stuck like I explained above).
> 3) Quit the Fasttrak BIOS and restart the system
> 4) Everything loads fine now until I do another 'shutdown -r now'
>
> FreeBSD 7.0 never caused any trouble so I'm assuming this has to do with 
> the changes to the BTX bootloader.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this ?

the easiest fix is to replace /boot/loader with the version from a 7.0 CD
In the meantime (i am collecting data) can you tell us whether this
uses an Intel or AMD CPU, sine or multi core ?

cheers
luigi 



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