Re: [update] kernel panic with freebsd-image 7.2-5 (i386)

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:15:57PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> > Hello all, especially Aurelien.
> >
> > It is still unclear what the real reason is,
> > so far only acpi enable boots are affected.
> > I together with Emmanuel Bouthenot investigated yet more,
> > it looks like the problem lies in interaction
> > between gnu linker and grub bootloader.
> >
> > May be only GRUB 2 (d-i) based installation are affected,
> > the kfreebsd-loader (sysinstall hacked installer)
> > loads acpi.ko from 7.2-5 fine for me.
> 
> We should definitely debug this problem furtger, as GRUB-2 provides more
> features than kfreebsd-loader (like being able to edit the boot command
> or select different kernels). Also it is packaged, which is not the case
> of kfreebsd-loader.

Hi,

Would you please report this to grub-devel ?

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