From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 20:16: 0 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 609FF37B404 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:15:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from visimation.com (visimation.com [206.169.230.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC3A43FAF for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:15:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adaml@visimation.com) Received: from Spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.32) ID MO000A3A; 14 Mar 03 20:13:08 -0800 Received: from spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.32); 14 Mar 03 20:13:04 -0800 Received: from 5adam5 (12.228.14.29) by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.32) with ESMTP ID MG000A39; 14 Mar 03 20:13:01 -0800 Reply-To: From: "Adam Lofstedt" To: Subject: BTX Halted and Fatal Trap 12 errors on older machine Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:15:43 -0800 Organization: Visimation, Inc. Message-ID: <018001c2eaa9$8d19b500$6501a8c0@5adam5> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 I've got this spare machine, and I thought it would be perfect as a FreeBSD box to play with. It's a P-100mHz, with 32MB RAM, floppy, video card, two PCI NICs, 50X CDROM, 40GB Western Digital hard drive, and one IDE controller. However, I can't boot at all from any bootable FreeBSD ISO (tried 4.5,4.6,4.7, and 5.0). I can boot RedHat, Windows, and NetBSD cds though. When I try to boot from CD, I get a BTX Halted error message right away, before the hardware even gets probed. I tried changing every BIOS setting possible, but the FreeBSD ISO's just don't work on this system. Anyone have any ideas why I would get this error? So, I then used the bootable floppies and successfully started sysinstall. Each of about 25 installation attempts failed at different points with "Fatal Trap 12" errors. Installations failed during sysinstall extracting files, and during Gnome or KDE installation, either installing from CD or FTP. Sometimes installation would successfully complete, I would reboot, login, do some stuff, and then another Fatal Trap 12 error would appear. This occurred while installing various packages, while upgrading ports tree with cvsup, and during compiling/installation of various ports. The only thing that seems to be a common thread is that the Fatal Trap 12 errors occur during heavy disk read/write periods. Memtest-86 showed no memory errors at all, and I ran a disk utility to check for badblocks on hd, and the drive is healthy. I'm pretty sure that the BTX errors and the Fatal Trap 12 errors are probably not related... Before I spend more time on this dang machine, does it sound like there is something that I can work around these problems with? Or should I just forget about this miserable thing? Thanks, Trying hard to use freebsd... Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message