i386/74008: IBM eServer x225 cannot boot any v5.x - endless dump scrolling in bootloader.

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

The following reply was made to PR i386/74008; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net>
To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, kib at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/74008: IBM eServer x225 cannot boot any v5.x - endless dump
 scrolling in bootloader.
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:24:03 +0000 (UTC)

 On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Kostik Belousov wrote:
 
 > I said this looks like garbage due to _very_ strange combination of the
 
 Well I said "gibberish" ;-)
 
 > cs and eip values. But actual code is not quite a garbage. Could you check
 > the CF card geometry ?
 
 here is what I got from an fdisk in my console log (I'll be closer
 to the machine later today). There are no PATA options in the BIOS
 btw.
 
 parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
 cylinders=1985 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
 
 Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 
 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
 cylinders=1985 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
 
 The data for partition 1 is:
 sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
      start 32, size 1998816 (975 Meg), flag 80 (active)
          beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
          end: cyl 975/ head 63/ sector 32
 
 
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