From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 1:35:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F70737B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:35:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.crc.co.za (home.crc.co.za [196.36.165.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA3A43F1E for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:35:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Received: (from root@localhost) by home.crc.co.za (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0H9ZBpc031807; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:35:11 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Received: from dman ([192.168.1.8]) by home.crc.co.za (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0H9YxiT031780; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:35:05 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Message-ID: <02c101c2be0b$c2209c70$0801a8c0@dman> From: "Doron Shmaryahu" To: "DoubleF" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" References: <20030117091813.26677.qmail@mail.tele-kom.ru> Subject: Re: Make World Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:35:16 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, thanks for the advice - do you think I could just install the btx loader by itself ? Also why would top and ps not work ?? thanks again for all the help Doron ----- Original Message ----- From: "DoubleF" To: "FreeBSD-questions" Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: Re: Make World > Recently, Doron Shmaryahu wrote: > > > This time there were no errors but when the > > machine rebooted it just says btx halted and a whole lot of other stuff. It > > sits there and does not boot. > > If it's not the kernel, then let me give it a try. I can think > of one (1) way of BTX being loaded but panicking. If BTX is > not entirely in the area accessible by BIOS (~8G on my old one), > and the BIOS lies to the boot0 loader that it has loaded it (while > it hasn't) then BTX will be half-loaded and will panic as soon as > it reaches the not loaded code. > > It is `perfectly' possible to have a kernel be loadable but not BTX > (i have such a monster). I have obsereved the same situation when > trying to get BTX loaded using packet interface to the disk. > You could try using boot0cfg(8) with "-o nopacket". > > Mind, > >> Use of the `packet' option may cause `boot0' to fail, > >> depending on the nature of BIOS support. > (boot0cfg(8)) > > By the way, your old 4.5 system could be `immune' to this as f.e. my > 4.4-R doesn't absolutely require BTX to run properly. And yes, > when you interrupt your boot, BTX is skipped. > > Could it be just a broken BTX binary? > > Good luck, > DoubleF > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message