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From: Oliver Blasnik <o.blasnik@nextra.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: btx/bootloader dumps very often if serial remote console enabled
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>Number:         30125
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [bootloader] btx/bootloader dumps very often if serial remote console enabled
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    remko
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 27 04:20:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sat Dec 30 17:00:38 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Sat Dec 30 17:00:38 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Oliver Blasnik
>Release:        4.2, 4.3, 4.4rc
>Organization:
Nextra Germany
>Environment:
FreeBSD mailin1-a2.ships.nextra.de 4.4-20010815-RC1 FreeBSD 4.4-20010815-RC1 #0: Fri Aug 24 16:35:19 GMT 2001     root@conf-master.ships.nextra.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/SHIPS  i386
>Description:
While booting with serial remote console enabled (Intel ISP2150) the bootloader refuses to work very often (before and while loading) and dumps:

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(murray@scrub.lab.nuxi.com, Thu Aug 16 04:39:51 GMT 2001)
[....]
Loading Mfsroot...
\
int=00000006  err=00000000  efl=00010202  eip=0f00ffff
eax=00000000  ebx=840fa6f3  ecx=0002b680  edx=18550000
esi=000000ff  edi=00021680  ebp=ff0cbd83  esp=000035e4
cs=002b  ds=0033  es=0033    fs=0033  gs=0033  ss=0033
cs:eip=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ss:esp=84 af 00 00 00 c7 45 d0-00 00 00 00 c7 45 d4 00
BTX halted

This is possibly related to pr21559 and not fixed now (after ONE YEAR).
As far as I am using pxeboot and a large (20M) /mfsroot, it's nearly impossible to get a system booting up. I tried the loaders from 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4rc1.
>How-To-Repeat:
Enable serial remote console and boot.
>Fix:
Disable serial remote console.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Sat Dec 30 16:58:06 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
hello is this still relevant for recent freebsd releases? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->remko 
Responsible-Changed-By: remko 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Dec 30 16:58:06 UTC 2006 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
grab the pr 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30125 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Sat Dec 30 17:00:36 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
The email address of the submitter is no longer active, closing the 
ticket, if you have feedback which requires this pr to be reopened, 
please contact me. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30125 
>Unformatted:
