From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 15:16:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046A616A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:16:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3DC43D58 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:16:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin.brown@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so789435rnf for ; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:16:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=gkY7W/ZzjxSkqxQ1oIu4ILY9Bq+s4nKlYSXhvVo+y1BQL3Lzrk6y3jlhbps/VP8fDG6a36dqQzyQLuX6Kgl2SH1f1IxW7JvOV5IJuBchu4LE7dsdo9vFLL4NOUJC/OuDx+ishMJib4IwOKV4zAEcHfSnwtCnWOS7X3Yi7e+1klU= Received: by 10.38.78.48 with SMTP id a48mr69189rnb; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:16:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.78.45 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:16:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8b6eae9605030507165d4c6cae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:16:42 -0500 From: Edwin Brown To: Doug White In-Reply-To: <20050304233347.A4084@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8b6eae960503022048b90c457@mail.gmail.com> <20050304233347.A4084@carver.gumbysoft.com> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Edwin Brown List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:16:43 -0000 It's a Dell XPS Pro 200n system tag 72V98 CPU: Pentium Pro 200MHz Chipset: Intel 82440FX Memory: 128MB ECC SIMM BIOS: A06 released 01/08/1998 (the last bios for this computer) IDE: (MSI DVD drive) (bootable secondary channel master) (Maxtor 40GB hard disk) (bootable primary channel master) I've also installed a promise ATA/133 card and tried to boot the computer with the CD and hard drive attached to that instead of the system board. However, that fails as well. I've gone ahead an installed from the floppies with the IDE devices attached to the motherboard. For some reason the floppies boot fine. Thanks for the reply, Edwin On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:34:28 -0800 (PST), Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Edwin Brown wrote: > > > I've built 5.3 Stable as of tonight 03/02/2005 with the following in make.conf > > > > CPUTYPE=i686 > > CFLAGS=-02 -pipe > > > > It was built on a p4. > > > > I went to install this on my trusty firewall machine and I get the following > > error: > > -----BEGIN ERROR----- > > CD Loader 1.2 > > > > 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=000000c0 efl=00010a47 eip=00015528 > > eax=00000000 ebx=00000001 ecx=ffffffff edx=00094fa0 > > esi=01164e7f edi=c8b66ff7 ebp=00093ff8 esp=7c24ddf4 > > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > > cs:eip=9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00 > > 9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00 > > ss:esp=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > > BTX halted > > -----END ERROR----- > > Also, the 5.3.isos downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org fail to boot as well. > > > > It's not hardware related as I'm able to pop in a OpenBSD3.6 snapshot > > and boot from that. > > Probably not a hardware failure, but certainly a misbehaving BIOS or > bootable card. What system/motherboard is this? Is there a BIOS update > available? > > -- > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org >