On Monday, November 21, 2011 1:45:36 pm John Nielsen wrote: > This weekend I downloaded the Freebsd 9.0 RC2 amd64 ISO image and burned it to a DVD. I have a computer that currently runs Windows 7 but I plan to install FreeBSD on it in the near future so I booted it up from the DVD to check the hardware/driver status. Much to my dismay, the boot loader crashed right away (register dump followed by "BTX halted") and the computer immediately rebooted. I took a video with my phone so I could capture the crash message, screenshot here: > > http://picpaste.com/pics/BTXcrash.1321899682.jpg > > I then tried tweaking a few BIOS settings and found that turning off the built-in pseudo-RAID allowed the DVD to boot normally. I changed the SATA type from "RAID" to "AHCI". Fortunately I plan to use the controller in AHCI mode for the FreeBSD installation so this won't end up being a problem for me, but I still thought it was worth reporting.
Hmmm, so this is odd. It died with an Invalid TSS exception on the iret instruction at the end of the return-from-real-mode trampoline in BTX. Looking at the dump I noticed that PSL_NT is set in %eflags, so for some reason the iret was trying to do a nested task return. We shouldn't let that flag leak out of any real mode code. Try this patch perhaps: Index: btx.S =================================================================== --- btx.S (revision 227815) +++ btx.S (working copy) @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ .set PSL_RESERVED_DEFAULT,0x00000002 .set PSL_T,0x00000100 # Trap flag .set PSL_I,0x00000200 # Interrupt enable flag + .set PSL_D,0x00000400 # String instruction direction + .set PSL_NT,0x00004000 # Nested task flag .set PSL_VM,0x00020000 # Virtual 8086 mode flag .set PSL_AC,0x00040000 # Alignment check flag /* @@ -609,8 +611,8 @@ rret_tramp: movw $MEM_ESPR-0x08,%sp # Reset stack pushl %ds # regs pushl %es pushfl # Save %eflags - cli # Disable interrupts - std # String ops dec + pushl $PSL_RESERVED_DEFAULT|PSL_D # Use clean %eflags with + popfl # string ops dec xorw %ax,%ax # Reset seg movw %ax,%ds # regs movw %ax,%es # (%ss is already 0) @@ -673,6 +675,7 @@ rret_tramp.1: xorl %ecx,%ecx # Zero testl $V86F_FLAGS,%edx # User wants flags? jz rret_tramp.3 # No movl MEM_ESPR-0x3c,%eax # Read real mode flags + andl $~(PSL_T|PSL_NT),%eax # Clear unsafe flags movw %ax,-0x08(%esi) # Update user flags (low 16) /* * Return to the user task I haven't tested it yet, so only try this from a CD install for now. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"