From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 08:40:25 2003 Return-Path: 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 E178837B404 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 08:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.schumacheren.dk (schumacheren.dk [80.199.19.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C785343F85 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 08:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Steffen@schumacheren.dk) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:41:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3AB216CA45DADF4084FC6FF6A6C65A5B51D5@server.schumacheren.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Trouble installing FreeBSD.. X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-Index: AcNanu4wfu9HcsGBRsmBLTP0jHUqWw== From: "Steffen Schumacher" To: Subject: Trouble installing FreeBSD.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:40:25 -0000 Hi! =20 I have an IBM Aptiva 2137-E30, from which I would like run FreeBSD. To start with I wanted the 4.8 version, but now I think I'll pretty much take anything that works. The PC comes with a bootable CDROM drive, which will boot your Microsoft Windows installation CDs (have tried with w2k and XP). Also it has a 3=BD" floppy, which also will boot which ever = (except FreeBSD) bootable floppy I feed to it. =20 This is what I've tried so far, all of it has failed. 1. Bootable CD from the 4.8 MINI-ISO image. When attempting to read the kernel, it halts with this message: =20 Invalid format >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0:a)/kernel BOOT: =20 And pretty much regardless of what I try, the last two lines is repeated. I haven't tried with another ISO (5.1 would probably be the next candidate), but I'm not going to either, because the, otherwise so fail proof, floppy installation disks also fails for both 4.8 and 5.1. =20 =20 2. Floppy installation disks v. 4.8 The kernel disk boots up, seemingly fine, and prompts for the mfsroot disk. The mfsroot disk also reads fine, and ends up prompting me, if I want to boot kernel. I figure this must be what I'm supposed to do, so I hit the ENTER button, but after 2-5 seconds, an error occurs. There are two different which I have seen in this situation. To the best of my knowledge there is no logical pattern in which of the two I get at a specific time I try to boot. The first is like this. The following text is printed with white (not grey) text in the bottom of the screen: Fatal double fault:=20 =20 Eip 0xC030EE78=20 Esp 0xC05E3EB8=20 Ebp 0xC05E3EC0 Panic: double fault Uptime 0s =20 =20 At this time, all I can do is to reboot. =20 The second error is like this. Almost every of the CPU's registers is dumped to the screen, in a continuous loop, scrolling down the screen. The values of the registers do NOT change. I'm sorry, but I'm too lazy to copy them onto this mail, but I suspect that the EIP, ESP, EBP registers all have the same value as in errortype 1. =20 =20 3. Floppy installation disks v. 5.1 These disks behave EXACTLY like the 4.8 ones, except the second error the registers are only printed out once, and as a result there is also no scrolling down the screen. =20 =20 I have tried to find updates for the BIOS, as it dates all the way back to august 1997, but there isn't any available from IBM. I've tried putting the CDROM as master drive and the hd as slave, and the other way around. I've scanned my floppies rigorously with no signs of flaws what so ever. =20 I know that there is some hardware on which FreeBSD will not run, and I'm starting to fear that this in one such piece of hardware. =20 Anyone have any ideas? =20 I really would like to avoid having to install linux in stead. =20 //Steffen [at] Schumacher [dot] dk =20