From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jan 16 7:22:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C3C37B405 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:22:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699E043F18 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:22:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 15388 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2003 15:22:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Jan 2003 15:22:27 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0GFMNUT014500; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:22:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:22:23 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Vince Vielhaber Subject: RE: 5.0 boot failure on laptop Cc: current@freebsd.org, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 16-Jan-2003 Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > I'm not sure where to ask this. 5.0 isn't released yet so I don't think > questions is the place but since it's on a laptop I'll try here. If > there's a better list for it, let me know and I'll bounce it there too. > Just before sending this I also included Current. > > I have a Micron Transport XPE. I need to run 5.0 for the cardbus support. > It has the TI 1130 Cardbus in it. > > The problem is the CD won't boot. The 4.7 CD boots in it fine, and the > 5.0 CD that I burned from the ISO image boots fine in another computer. > I've tried both miniinst and disk1 images. > > I get the CD Loader message and everything up to Starting... Then it all > goes downhill. > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > > int=00000005 err=00000000 efl=00010286 eip=0001768c > eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > esi=00000000 edi=00000000 epb=00000000 esp=00094824 > > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > > cs:eip= 62 61 73 65 20 61 74 20-25 70 2c 20 74 6f 70 20 > 61 74 20 25 70 0a 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > ss:esp= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > BTX halted > > Ugly, huh? Eek, your CD drive must be hosed or something. It's trying to execute text: "base at %p, top at %p" (that's the stuff at CS:EIP) and is getting badly confused as a result. > So I yank out the battery, run it on the AC adapter and plug > in the floppy. Now I have the CD and the floppy to work with. > I made up the two floppies, it boots up, it complains about not > being able to load if_awi.ko, I tell it to keep going and up > comes the menu. > > I select UPGRADE (it has 4.7 on it now), choose some distribution > stuff, go into the label editor (there's no way to tell it what > partition is the swap partition without deleting it and recreating > it), set the mount point and hit Q. For an upgrade to 5.0, the upgrade facility is probably a bad idea. Backing up your data and doing a fresh install is probably the safest way to upgrade. :-/ -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message