Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:46:33 +0100 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD? Message-ID: <20000106144633.A13911@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <200001060829.AAA01025@mass.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:29:18AM -0800 References: <20000105191920.D11588@foobar.franken.de> <200001060829.AAA01025@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:29:18AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > On a (semi-)related topic - I tried to install FreeBSD
> > 3.3-RELEASE on my "Gericom" notebook last week and _always_
> > failed when booting from either the CD or from the 3.3 bootdisks
> > I had created.
> > The booting process would halt at either the point where it says
> >
> > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
> >
> > or it would pass exactly this point and then halt at the next
> > screen (the one where you select wether you want to config your
> > kernel in visual mode etc.). At one of these points it would
> > simply freeze, no panic, no dump, nothing.
>
> More details (eg. the output when you use 'boot -v' on the install
> floppies) would be helpful.
Whoops, yes, I forgot to attach it to my last mail.
This is the output when booting from the CD. I doubt that the
verbose output from a bootdisk will look different, but I could
give it a try...
> It'd be interesting to know if you have the same problem with the boot
> floppies for a recent 4.0 snapshot.
It halts at exactly the same point.
bye,
Harold
--
Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have
been lost waiting for NT to reboot.
Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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Booting from Removable Media
/boot.config: -P
Keyboard: yes
-
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive B: is disk1
BIOS drive C: is disk2
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 639/64512kB
(jkh@highwing.cdrom.com, Thu Sep 16 22:16:41 GMT 1999)
|
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds...
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
disk0s4a:> set boot_verbose
disk0s4a:> boot
/kernel text=0x1be13e data=0x2ecd04+0x1e790 syms=[0x4+0x25610+0x4+0x25ace]
BIOS basemem (639K) != RTC basemem (640K), setting to BIOS value
Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #5: Fri Sep 17 00:41:25 GMT 1999
jkh@highwing.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS
Calibrating clock(s) ... TSC clock: 432639332 Hz, i8524 clock: 1193055 Hz
CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION not specified - using old calibration method
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Booting from Removable Media
/boot.config: -P
Keyboard: yes
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 639kB/64512kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7
(root@usw2.freebsd.org, Wed Jan 5 13:03:02 GMT 2000)
/kernel text=0x1c5c39 data=0x25e74+0x19a04 syms=[0x4+0x29f50+0x4+0x2c0fc]
Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter:
-
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel] in 7 seconds...
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
ok set boot_verbose
ok boot
Copyright (c) 1992-2000 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.0-20000105-CURRENT #4: Wed Jan 5 16:08:46 GMT 2000
root@usw2.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS
Calibrating clock(s) ... TSC clock: 432654589 Hz, i8524 clock: 1193097 Hz
CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION not specified - using old calibration method
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