bootstrap loader problem

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 01 November 2009 7:35:55 pm Don L. Belcher wrote:
> New Dell 1737 laptop
> 
> The following error occurs with versions 7.2 release and later
> this message is from 8  RC2. All versions tried with 7.1 release and
> earlier  work fine, I tried 7.1, 7.2 and 6.4. I rebuilt 8 RC2 CD with 
> "loader"
> from 7.1 release and the 8 RC2 comes up O.K. now.
> I have two questions:
> 1) is anybody familiar with this problem
> 2) is it ok to install 8 RC2 using the 7.1 "loader"
> 
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
> Consoles: internal video/keyboard
> panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0xbb797074 from  (diretory path to) 
> common/console.c:94
> --> Press a key (etc)

I have not seen that before.  Can you try compiling a loader on 8 that doesn't 
include GPT support?  (cd /sys/boot; make LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT=yes)

A loader from 7.1 should work ok on 8.0.

-- 
John Baldwin