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From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>
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Subject: Loader in 5.0-CURRENT failing
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>Number:         31738
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Loader in 5.0-CURRENT failing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 03 13:00:12 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Fri Nov 9 09:00:29 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Fri Nov 09 09:01:44 PST 2001
>Originator:     Joseph Mallett
>Release:        5-LATEST from snapshots.jp
>Organization:
NA
>Environment:
NA
>Description:
I'm trying 5-CURRENT 'bootonly' cd images (tried floppies, self-made boot.flp bootable cdroms, same results) from snapshots.jp, and the cd spins up, the BTX banner thing briefly appears, screen goes blank, spin CD spin, reboot. 4-STABLE from snapshots.jp works just fine. 
>How-To-Repeat:
boot a 5-LATEST bootonly image from snapshots.jp
>Fix:
I dunno, but maybe it's related to the "reboot buglet in BOOT_BTX_NOHANG"? If so, the patch that was applied to HEAD is:

===================================================================
RCS file: /c/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.s,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -p -r1.24 -r1.25
--- src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.s	2001/03/21 20:08:07	1.24
+++ src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.s	2001/05/27 20:15:10	1.25
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # purpose.
 #
 
-# $FreeBSD: /c/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.s,v 1.24 2001/03/21 20:08:07 jhb Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: /c/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.s,v 1.25 2001/05/27 20:15:10 rnordier Exp $
 
 #
 # Memory layout.
@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ ifdef(`PAGING',`
 ')
 		popl %eax			# Call
 		call *%eax			#  program
-intx30.1:	incb %ss:btx_hdr+0x7		# Flag reboot
+intx30.1:	orb $0x1,%ss:btx_hdr+0x7	# Flag reboot
 		jmp exit			# Exit
 #
 # Dump structure [EBX] to [EDI], using format string [ESI].


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: fenner 
State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 9 09:00:29 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Originator reports that updating his sources solved the problem. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31738 
>Unformatted:
