From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 23 12:05:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B7CA016A41F for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:05:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from local.usr@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4709F43D53 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:05:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from local.usr@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z6so341368nzd for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:05:46 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=VXR9nfC4+Vtv3HnKyoi5/sfn1OC9m+kbBAXImUsGhH9rLQovBDUx/09BrSvpePeM8nZejt39uEiKzgj+ki+W9HA97p5KyTkwGkMQds4pXmUuxpp/6aww+vkuGL8N9HTA4M9rRImeWT6QFApPGYYPrhQM3UpVOrB8MgRvd5Q5VtE= Received: by 10.36.42.16 with SMTP id p16mr427281nzp; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.48.16 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:05:46 +0300 From: user local To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: what's next? (error after BTX started) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: user local List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:05:47 -0000 This computer I'm writing from is a Compaq Evo D310m/845 r BU ALL I found enthusiastic articles about FreeBSD, so I decide to download the=20 stuff (FreeBSD5.4RELEASEi386) and I start to load it. The result follows... Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found Relocated the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console> internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/252928kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 8 05:59:07 UTC 2005) | int=3D0xd err=3D0x0 efl=3D0x30246 eip=3D0x3034 eax=3D0x205d ebx=3D0x4 ecx=3D0x2000 edx=3D0x288c esi=3D0x8d5 edi=3D05b74c ebp=3D0x1538 esp=3D0x1502 cs=3D0xf000 ds=3D0xee00 es=3D0xee00 fs=3D0x0 gs=3D0x0 ss=3D0xee00 cs:eip=3D0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75 08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75 ss:esp=3D4c b7 05 00 d5 08 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00 04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00 BTX halted End (that's from me:)) Note: an underscore blinks under the e from esi I was advertise by a small banner that the computer was designed for an=20 obscure system produced by a company in Redmont, somewhere in the West o=20 USA, Windows XP, but I didn't mean it. Is that true? I'd like to deny this,= =20 but I'm not so good to provide an argument, i.e. installation w/=20 1280x1024x32/70Hz X Windows. Hope you will help me guys, until my boss=20 change his mind of Open Source and Friends (however, take your time, variou= s=20 linuces worked on this box). But seriously, I noticed that something strange is happening w/ booting eve= n=20 Micro$ on theese boxes, as well on some compaq laptops: the only floppy I= =20 manage to boot from was a Partition Image one, and when I installed an Open= =20 on a laptop, I discover a hidden partition at the begining of the hard disc= .=20 Several Live CDs and other booting CDs stuff, an W2k including, also failed= .=20 I have 20 boxes like this, and that's happend not only on a specific one, s= o=20 it can not be a CD drive problem. Help me, please! just once! Bundy, Al, esq.