Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:13:25 -0500 From: Derrick Norris <derrick@norris-net.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available Message-ID: <200201130313.g0D3DPf20217@visar.norris-net.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020112154413.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.020112154413.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Saturday 12 January 2002 06:44 pm, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 12-Jan-02 Derrick Norris wrote:
<snip>
> > Had problems on a Dell Dimension XPS P-166 with no-name CD-ROM
> > drive and 64 MB RAM. I had originally burned the ISO onto a
> > CD-RW blank, then tried on a CD-R with same results:
> >
> > CD Loader 1.01
> >
> > Building the boot loader arguments
> > 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=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00010202 eip=0000e369
> > eax=000000fa ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00094fa1
> > esi=00000000 edi=00000001 ebp=00093ff8 esp=00000000
> >
> > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033
> >
> > cs:eip=2e 31 2e 31 2e 31 2e 31-34 2e 31 20 32 30 30 31
> > ss:esp=4f c8 81 02 00 89 e0 05-a0 0f 00 00 a3 cc 81 02
> >
> > and the system halted.
>
> Oeer. Hmm, cs:eip is pointing at text ".1.1.1.14.1 2001" and
> blowing up trying to execute that. Hmm, eip is in a rather weird
> address. Oh, %esp is hosed somehow, the stack pointer shouldn't be
> zero. :) So somehow the stack pointer got messed up and it started
> executing garbage before blowing up. Can you read the CD contents
> find on this machine? What year is the BIOS onthe Dimension XPS
> and can it boot a Windows 2000, NT 4, or Me CD-ROM ok? Thanks!
Yes, I thought it looked strange as well that the eip was pointing at
what looked like text. I reverified all the numbers just now by
trying the boot again, just to make sure I didn't make a mistake
transcribing them.
I can read the contents of the CD fine on the troubled box (after
booting into Windows which is what this box normally runs). The BIOS
is version A10; date of flash file on Dell's web site is 10/27/1998
and it is the latest BIOS available for this machine. I just tried
and it boots a Windows 2000 install CD with no problems.
This probably won't help much, but booting from a 4.3-RELEASE install
CD identifies the CD-ROM drive as:
CD-ROM Drive/F5A at ata1-master using PIO4
before entering sysinstall -- that's about as no-name as you can get
I suppose :).
Thanks,
Derrick
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