[geeks] freebsd error

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> BIOS drive C: is disk0
>> BIOS drive D: is disk1
>> BIOS 638kB/260032kB available memory
>>
>> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
>> (root at logal.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun Dec 2 15:52:00 UTC 2007)
>> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
>> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to
>> disk0:
>>
>> panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x5c24c from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/
>> loader/../../common/module.c:959
>>
>> This happens on VMware (my build system) and the real target  
>> hardware.
>
> Does this happen on VMware with all the images or just this 32bit one?

Just this one.

I think it was a Forth programming error on my part.

The Forth interpreter runs in the loader/kernel, so errors can easily  
be quite fatal to the operating system.


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Shannon Hendrix
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