From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Jan 12 19:13:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from visar.norris-net.com (adsl-156-86-151.asm.bellsouth.net [66.156.86.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE4437B404; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:13:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from derrick@localhost) by visar.norris-net.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0D3DPf20217; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:13:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from derrick) Message-Id: <200201130313.g0D3DPf20217@visar.norris-net.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Derrick Norris Reply-To: derrick@norris-net.com To: John Baldwin Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:13:25 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 12 January 2002 06:44 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > On 12-Jan-02 Derrick Norris wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message