Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:41:03 +0100 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE boot failure Message-ID: <200411181441.09471.benlutz@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <200411151429.56336.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200411091747.iA9Hl81Q075289@marlena.vvi.at> <200411151429.56336.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday 15 November 2004 20:29, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 12:47 pm, ALeine wrote: > > I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE from the ISO CD image, but it won't > > boot: > > > > F1 DOS > > F2 Linux > > F3 FreeBSD > > > > Default: F3 > > > > _ > > int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00000282 eip=000947cf > > eax=000000c1 ebx=0000273b ecx=fe510821 edx=00000000 > > esi=00000006 edi=00098db6 ebp=00090000 esp=00000000 > > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > > cs:eip=f0 2b 92 00 00 00 00 bc-89 00 00 af f1 e6 f8 00 > > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 54 3d 00 00 00 00 00 > > ss:esp=2b 00 00 01 1b f6 13 50-08 19 f6 f4 f7 f3 c3 f9 > > 6f 91 6c 2c f8 ef 0d 6c-10 f2 7b 77 08 59 2e f9 > > BTX halted > > > > This was with the HDD as ad0. I changed it to ad2 and used my > > other drive with FreeBSD 4.10 as ad0 to see what was going on. > > Here's the beef: > > Your BIOS is in lala land perhaps. Note that the stack pointer is 0, > so it's hard to tell how it got into such a funk. I'm not sure how you > can debug this, except perhaps to try turning off things like network > cards as boot devices and turning off DMA mode in the BIOS for your > hard drives. I got an error like this when I accidentally tried to use FreeBSD/amd64 on an i386-only machine. Maybe the BIOS is broken, but the chance that using vmware instead of his native hardware would produce the same error is low, isn't it? Benjamin [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBnKZ1gShs4qbRdeQRAsEKAJsE4aPEWKLslKHqagnSgjAuWL5JEwCfcw43 M/OYQT/+6TIZ8jl54YaNpMM= =+9bd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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