Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:44:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Joe Clarke <jclarke@cisco.com> Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot failure w/ 3.1-RELEASE and 3.1-STABLE (fwd) Message-ID: <199902222244.OAA01045@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:34:04 EST." <Pine.GSO.4.05.9902221531260.3663-100000@rtp-cse-185.cisco.com>
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If you have another machine that you can build a new loader on, try
this patch. It's possible that your BIOS is trying to work out if it's
running under Windows, and BTX doesn't like that.
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -r1.28 Makefile
--- Makefile 1999/01/18 19:05:27 1.28
+++ Makefile 1999/02/22 10:03:10
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
CLEANFILES+= vers.c vers.o ${BASE}.list ${BASE}.bin ${BASE}.sym ${BASE}.help
CFLAGS+= -Wall
-LDFLAGS= -nostdlib -static -Ttext 0x1000
+LDFLAGS= -nostdlib -static -Ttext 0x0
# i386 standalone support library
LIBI386= ${.OBJDIR}/../libi386/libi386.a
> Thomas, I downloaded the latest stable floppies, did a low-level format of
> the floppies, then dd'd the images to them. Again, the same problem. Is
> there any special hardware or BIOS manipulations I need to do? The error
> looks related to the primary IDE controller, but I can't tell what
> specifically it is. Again, the machine is a HP Kayak XA 333 (w/ 66 MHz
> I/O bus). Thanks.
>
> Joe Clarke
>
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> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>
> > Try using a new floppy for mfsroot. Format it first. I have not had any
> > problem since before 3.1-RELEASE. I have a very similar system except I use
> > a RivaTNT card instead of Cirrus Logic. However, video is almost certainly
> > not the problem.
> >
> > Tom Veldhouse
> > veldy@visi.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe "Marcus" Clarke <marcus@miami.edu>
> > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 12:02 PM
> > Subject: Boot failure w/ 3.1-RELEASE and 3.1-STABLE (fwd)
> >
> >
> > >I'm getting a System Halt after inserting the mfsroot floppy trying to
> > >install 3.1-RELEASE or 3.1-STABLE on an HP Kayak 333. I have successfully
> > >booted and installed 3.1 on a Kayak 350 and Kayak 400, but the 333 is
> > >being uncooperative. Here is the stack trace I'm getting. It looks like
> > >it's related to the primary IDE controller.
> > >
> > >BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.00
> > >Console: interal video/keyboard
> > >BIOS drive A: is disk0
> > >BIOS drive C: is disk1
> > >
> > >FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.5 638/65532kB
> > >(root@usw3.freebsd.org, Fri Feb 19 10:01:50 GMT 1999)
> > >/kernel text=0x18be9a data=0x1b34c+0x1dcc8 syms=[0x4+0x23c30+0x4+0x243bb]
> > >Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter:
> > >
> > >
> > >int=0000000e err=00000004 efl=00030246 eip=00002127
> > >eax=00002001 ebx=00000000 ecx=0000df07 edx=000003f5
> > >esi=0000a315 edi=0000a315 ebp=000003da esp=000003d0
> > >cs=ebb7 ds=0040 es=f000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db7
> > >cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4
> > >ss:esp=00 f0 4a 21 17 29 7e 25-15 a3 00 00 fe 9d 15 a3
> > >System halted
> > >
> > >This is the output from the -STABLE install, but the -RELEASE is the same.
> > >The BIOS has just been updated to the latest revision (no help). Here are
> > >the system stats:
> > >
> > >HP Kayak Pentium II 333 MHz 66 MHz bus
> > >512K L2 cache
> > >128 MB RAM
> > >6 GB UDMA IDE HD
> > >Cirrus Logic video card
> > >HP ethernet card (PCI Lance/PCnet-based)
> > >IDE CD-ROM (on secondary controller)
> > >
> > >I appreciate any input you can provide.
> > >
> > >Joe Clarke
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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