System borked: loader stack overflow.

[Andrew Lankford]

The cpu I'm using is:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7500  @ 2.20GHz (2194.52-MHz 
686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6fb  Stepping = 11
  
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0xe3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM>
  AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
  Cores per package: 2
real memory  = 2137444352 (2038 MB)
avail memory = 2086969344 (1990 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   M08    >


It's a Dell Vostro 1400.

Andrew Lankford



Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:09:52PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote:
>   
>> After rebuilding world from 7-stable after cvsup, I can no longer boot.  
>> The loader tries to load the kernel but instead locks up  with a stack 
>> overflow.  Wish I could send more details, but I'll have to find another 
>> way to boot up my system first.
>>     
>
> just to identify the problem - what was the version of your
> previous loader, and what kind of CPU do you have (Intel or AMD,
> single or multi core) etc.
>
> (to boot again you can replace /boot/loader with one taken from
> an older 6.3 or 7.0 CD)
>
> cheers
> luigi
>
>