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Date:      Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:05:46 +0300
From:      user local <local.usr@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   what's next? (error after BTX started)
Message-ID:  <a540cd4205072305054a2e19f5@mail.gmail.com>

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This computer I'm writing from is a Compaq Evo D310m/845 r BU ALL
I found enthusiastic articles about FreeBSD, so I decide to download the=20
stuff (FreeBSD5.4RELEASEi386) and I start to load it.

The result follows...
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocated the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console> internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS drive D: is disk1
BIOS 639kB/252928kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 8 05:59:07 UTC 2005)
|
int=3D0xd err=3D0x0 efl=3D0x30246 eip=3D0x3034
eax=3D0x205d ebx=3D0x4 ecx=3D0x2000 edx=3D0x288c
esi=3D0x8d5 edi=3D05b74c ebp=3D0x1538 esp=3D0x1502
cs=3D0xf000 ds=3D0xee00 es=3D0xee00 fs=3D0x0 gs=3D0x0 ss=3D0xee00
cs:eip=3D0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75
08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75
ss:esp=3D4c b7 05 00 d5 08 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00
04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00
BTX halted

End (that's from me:))
Note: an underscore blinks under the e from esi

I was advertise by a small banner that the computer was designed for an=20
obscure system produced by a company in Redmont, somewhere in the West o=20
USA, Windows XP, but I didn't mean it. Is that true? I'd like to deny this,=
=20
but I'm not so good to provide an argument, i.e. installation w/=20
1280x1024x32/70Hz X Windows. Hope you will help me guys, until my boss=20
change his mind of Open Source and Friends (however, take your time, variou=
s=20
linuces worked on this box).

But seriously, I noticed that something strange is happening w/ booting eve=
n=20
Micro$ on theese boxes, as well on some compaq laptops: the only floppy I=
=20
manage to boot from was a Partition Image one, and when I installed an Open=
=20
on a laptop, I discover a hidden partition at the begining of the hard disc=
.=20
Several Live CDs and other booting CDs stuff, an W2k including, also failed=
.=20
I have 20 boxes like this, and that's happend not only on a specific one, s=
o=20
it can not be a CD drive problem.

Help me, please! just once!
Bundy, Al, esq.



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