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To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>
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Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump
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I'm not sure what's happening there, but just to let you know...run's
fine from my Athlon Box, (also a 700mhz K7 in Asus's board). Are you
using pc100, or pc133 ram? (I know there's a posting about not using
pc100ram for that MB).

Nathan Vidican
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Chris Shenton wrote:
> 
> Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install
> FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the
> registers immediately after saying
> 
> /boot.config: -P
> Keyboard: yes
> /               [spin icon just twitches once or somethign]
> 
> Here's what the 4.0-RELEASE kern.flp dumps before halting; I'm
> supressing the leading zeros so I can typie this:
> 
> int=d      err=0        efl=30002       eip=56af
> eax=208    ebx=0        ecx=c0010010    edx=100
> esi=b      edi=5        ebp=3f4         esp=3c4
> cs=f000    ds=ec00      es=1000         fs=0    gs=0    ss=9e75
> cs: eip=0f 32 66 0d 00 00 08 00-0f 30 c3 66 b9 10 00 01
> ss: esp=12 57 03 01 00 00 00 01-00 00 8d 1d 00 ec ba 1d
> System Halted
> 
> I've also tried this with the 3.4-RELEASE floppy and it fails
> similarly, tho dumps the registers twice for some reason.
> 
> BTW: Solaris-x86-beta does boot from floppy.
> 
> Any hints? I'd really prefer not to go to (ehem) another operating system.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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