panic very early at boot with -current (20040912-SESNAP)

class_consulting.leidinger_at_daimlerchrysler.com
Date: 09/13/04

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:42:49 +0200
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    Hi,

    please excuse if this mails exhibits unfriendly behavior, I'm not the
    mail-admin here and I have to use Lotus Notes...

    I've downloaded the 20040912 sesnap of -current to install it on my laptop.
    It panics immediatly after loading the kernel. The manufacturer of the
    Laptop went away, so there's no chance to get a new BIOS. Additionally it
    doesn't has serial lines or a floppy drive. 4.x doesn't panic, but it isn't
    able to find the root-FS (I think it can't find the CD drive).

    The panic (non verbose boot) looks like:
    ---snip---
    [Copyright]
    [WITNESS enabled]
    [Timecounter i8254]
    [mobile Athlon XP 1800+]
    [239 MB real memory]
    [npx]
    pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
    pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 7 Entries> on motherboard
    pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
    [in a verbose boot I see "found ->" for vendor 0x1106 and devices 0x3156
    (revid=0x00) and device 0xb091 (revid=0x0) and for vendor 0x1524, dev
    0x1410]

    Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
    cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
    fault virtual address = 0xe7136
    faul code = supervisor read, page not present
    instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc00e9005
    stack pointer = 0x10:0xc1021a4c
    frame pointer = 0x10:0xc1021a4c
    code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                         = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
    processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
    current process = 0 (swapper)
    [thread 0]
    Stopped at 0xc00e9005: cmpb %cs:0x1(%esi),%bl
    db> trace
    kernbase(...)
    end(...)
    db>
    ---snip---

    Booting with ACPI enabled (the non default mode of booting from the cdboot
    CD) changes the behavior, no panic and it boots just fine into sysinstall.
    I hope we can replace this panic with a "please try to boot with ACPI
    enabled" or something like this in RELENG_5_3, since we will get bad press
    if we ship without a fix and a tester stumbles over this problem. It's
    definitivly a showstopper for novices which want to give FreeBSD a try and
    don't know as much about FreeBSD as we do.

    I can provide additional information of a verbose boot or debug specific
    parts and report back, but I can't download and burn something until I'm
    back home (at the weekend).

    I haven't installed 6-current yet, but the already installed DragonFly 1.0
    boots just fine, so if you need some additional information which I can
    provide with a copy&paste (by hand, my laptop has no other possibility to
    share data with my office-computer) from DragonFly (e.g. pciconv -l), just
    ask. The same applies for information I can get with a "cdboot" image of
    -current without installing FreeBSD.

    Bye,
    Alexander.

    --
    Alexander Leidinger, Diplom-Informatiker
    Class Consulting
    Admin im MIF-Projekt (T-Systems / Daimler-Chrysler)
    Tel.: 0711/972-44286
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