Re:
Marcel Moolenaar <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ia64 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Nov 10, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Marc Lörner wrote: >> On Nov 2, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Marc Lörner wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I have an issue on booting install disc1 for RC1, too. >>> >>> After following output is hangs: >>> >>> FreeBSD/ia64 EFI boot, Revision 3.1 >>> can't open '/boot/screen.4th': no such file or directory >>> >>> Marcel, did you test the new isos? >>> It seems all the files are included in the CD's root "/boot" directory, >>> but not in the bootable-partition. >> >> Hi Marc, >> >> I didn't test last time, because there was a release build >> failure (process error) and I had to scramble to get the >> RC1 out in time. >> >> I fixed the issue; it's committed to head, so I'll incorporate >> it in the release. >> >> What I ran into is that the kernel doesn't seem to boot on an >> old rx2600 (McKinley). I'm getting machine checks. It's not >> caused by the loader or anything, because I can boot from CD >> and manually boot an existing kernel. It looks like there's a >> problem with the GENERIC kernel. I'm looking into that right >> now. > > Hello Marcel, > your problem maybe is related to ia64/147772 and the use of > ptg.ga in pmap_invalidate_page of GENERIC kernel. A non-GENERIC kernel works fine, either with or without SMP. Also, the kernel triggers a MCA before the console is set up, so we haven't yet bootstrapped the VM yet. It could be a bug in the loader, introduced by the PBVM switch (i.e. linking the kernel against a virtual address and having the loader build a page table to map VA to PA -- added for the support of the SGI Altix). FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"