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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:22:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: 5.0 boot failure on laptop
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030116102223.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0301152143510.99712-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>

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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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