Re: lost with booting

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

okay. this means we should definitely break after a BTX error and *not* 
somehow return to business (I've seen a iret somewhere). maybe *then* 
we can track the issue.

somehow it seem that *either* esp/ss gets shifted to an area that is 
full of 0xff *or* something overflows and kills the whole stack. Or am 
I on the wrong track?

cheers
  simon

On 08.09.2004, at 08:22, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:

> -On [20040907 23:52], Matthew Dillon (dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 
> wrote:
> >    I can't make heads or tails of it.  All I can think of is that 
> > maybe
> >    you are running a mix of different types of boot code?
>
> I now know for 100% certainty I haven't gotten a mix.
>
> Each and every time I made sure bootblocks were installed.
> I also used fdisk with p 2 0 0 0 to remove the partition before I 
> recreated
> it with fdisk and p 2 165 255996720 142294320.
>
> >    If you are trying to boot a dragonfly slice, you must have 
> > dragonfly
> >    boot1/boot2 blocks installed on that slice.  That is, you have to 
> > proper
> >    disklabel the slice, for example:
> >
> >    disklabel -B ad0s2
>
> Even used disklabel -Bi ad0 and supplied the information from my disk 
> (which
> is set to auto in BIOS, which is CHS - 65525/16/255, LBA being
> 16643/255/63).
>
> >    In the past we have found that 'garbage' in the slice can screw up
> >    booting, so to be totally safe I'd blow it away completely and 
> > reinstall.
> >
> > 	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s2 bs=32k count=16
> > 	disklabel -r -w ad0s2 auto
> > 	disklabel -B ad0s2
> > 	... reinstall dragonfly from scratch on that slice ...
>
> Same issues.
> DF just refuses to boot.
> It gets as far as printing - and then scrolls a BTX error/dump and 
> resets
> just as fast, only because I see the remnant glow on the monitor I 
> know it
> said BTX halted.
>
> --
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai / kita no 
> mono
> Free Tibet! http://www.savetibet.org/ | http://www.tibet.nu/
> http://www.tendra.org/   | http://www.in-nomine.org/
> To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole 
> world
> burns and sparkles with light...
--
/"\
\ /
 \     ASCII Ribbon Campaign
/ \  Against HTML Mail and News

Attachment: PGP.sig
Description: This is a digitally signed message part