Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:31:12 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: friar_josh@tcbug.org Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BTX halts installing 5.x Message-ID: <200312021931.hB2JVCeF029903@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20031202171118.GB29628@tcbug.org>
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On 2 Dec, Josh Paetzel wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz 512K cache system and I am getting the > following error: > > CD Loader 1.01 > > Building the boot loader arguements > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > > int=00000005 err=00000000 efl=00019286 eip=0001c8a4 > eax=000000a3 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > esi=cce65d00 edi=00000000 ebp=00000000 esp=0009407c > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > cs:eip=62 6f 6f 74 2e 6e 65 74-69 66 2e 69 70 00 62 6f > 6f 74 2e 6e 65 74 69 66-2e 6e 65 74 6d 61 73 6b > ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > BTX halted > > I've tried warm booting after this and I get the same results. I've tried 5.0-RELEASE, 5.0-DP1, > 5.1-RELEASE, and three different snapshots, all of which work fine on my other machines, including one > other SMP box. It's also worth noting that 4.8-RELEASE and 4.9-RELEASE install fine on this box. > > I can boot 4.9 and post a dmesg if that would help, but to briefly describe the hardware: > > Intel PR440FX Mainboard > Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz 512K Cache CPUs > Adaptec 7880 SCSI controller > 4.3 gig IBM Wide SCSI-2 Disks > Intel EtherExpress Pro LAN adapter > I've tried a couple different video cards, Cirrus Logis and SIS PCI > 320 Megs of Registered ECC SDRAM Could this be a result of the switch from emulated floppy bootable CDs to 'no emulation' bootable CDs that happened with between the 4.x and 5.x branches? If you can do a "make release" to create you own .iso images, try doing it with the EMUL_BOOT variable defined, which will generate the .iso images with the emulated-floppy boot code.
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