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From: "Muthu Mohan. T" <muthu_t@dell.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: mountroot> prompt pressing enter gives panic
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>Number:         66605
>Category:       ia64
>Synopsis:       mountroot> prompt pressing enter gives panic
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ia64
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 13 04:30:19 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 13 09:00:09 PDT 2004
>Last-Modified:  Thu May 13 09:00:09 PDT 2004
>Originator:     Muthu Mohan. T
>Release:        5.2 - 20040502 snapshot
>Organization:
DELL
>Environment:
>Description:
In the mountroot> prompt, just press the enter without giving any input.
It gives kernel panic.

>How-To-Repeat:
1. Setup the serial console.
2. Install FreeBSD.
3. Reboot 
4. Create a EFI Boot Menu using EFI maintanence menu.
5. Boot into FreeBSD (Still use Serial Console).
6. Kernel will drops you in mountroot> prompt.
7. Just press enter without giving any input. (or 2 or 3 backspace and enter also gives kernel panic)
8. Kernel will panic and you will be dropped to db> shell.




>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: marcel 
State-Changed-When: Thu May 13 08:57:27 PDT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is normal behaviour. The kernel cannot continue without a root 
file system and when it asks the user as a last resort, the user 
has to provide one. When the user doesn't provide a root file system, 
the kernel can only panic. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=66605 
>Unformatted:
