From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 6:49:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D3737BB33 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 06:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000517134930.HSIO22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>; Wed, 17 May 2000 06:49:30 -0700 Content-Length: 2314 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14623.27816.322396.777829@whale.home-net> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:50:12 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: John Reynolds Subject: RE: very strange boot panic--can someone shed some light? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20000517134930.HSIO22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-May-00 John Reynolds wrote: > > Hello all, > > I recently purchased an OEM Pentium III 500 to go into my Asus P2B-DS > motherboard (which currently houses a Pentium II 450 nicely). After I seated > the CPU and switched the jumpers to make the clock 500Mhz, I switched it > on. The BIOS recognized the CPU as "Pentium III 500" and all seemed well until > I hit RET to boot into FreeBSD. Immediately before I got the "booting kernel in > 9 seconds" countdown, it rebooted. > > Upon rebooting, the BIOS could not initializes the video so all I got was "bios > beep" errors. > > After doing this several times with cold shutdowns inbetween (scratching my > head and wondering if I'd bought a lemon), I got this at the same place where > it seemed to be spontaneously rebooting/dying: > > builtin: not found > builtin: not found > builtin: not found > builtin: not found > builtin: not found > ... (bunches of these) > > int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00010206 eip=0000dc70 ^^^^^^^^ Invalid opcode. In other words, the code below at cs:eip is not a valid instruction. > eax=000912bb ebx=0001c95c ecx=0009497c edx=0000dc3c > esi=00000001 edi=00000001 ebp=00094980 esp=0009491c > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > cs: eip=5b 8d 55 f8 52 8d 55 fc-52 ff 75 08 e8 bf f8 ff ^^^^^^^ > ss: esp=01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-80 49 09 00 3c 49 09 00 > System halted My guess is you have a hardware problem, either CPU, Memory, motherboard, or whatever disk you are booting off of. > Does this mean anything to anybody or is there just not enough to go on? I was > fairly sure that the P2B-DS supported the Pentium III up to 500 Mhz. I've got > BIOS rev 1012 in there (which is only 1 rev behind the current one issued > Apr. 18th). . > > If you have any clues, please let me know. I've not found a friend yet with a > Pentium III where I could plug this one into their moboard and see if it > worked. I also don't have a "known good" proc. so debugging this is still kind > of working in the dark. > > Thanks, > > -Jr -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message