From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 1 12:15:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BBC16A41F for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:15:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sebastian.ht@telia.com) Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234E743D46 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:15:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sebastian.ht@telia.com) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (81.236.253.200) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 43297E3C003ED2FA; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 14:15:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <433E7A97.9020109@gmail.com> References: <433E7A97.9020109@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Sebastian Holmqvist Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 14:15:44 +0200 To: Subhro X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem booting FBSD 5.4-stable.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:15:29 -0000 On 1 Oct 2005, at 14:01, Subhro wrote: > Sebastian Holmqvist sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/1/2005 17:04: > >> Specs: >> Amd Thunderbird 800 >> Abit KT7-raid (VIA KT133) >> >> 256 MB >> 30 GB IDE >> Cdrom >> Floppy >> >> Problem: The computer just prints three rows... >> >> 'Building the boot loader arguments >> Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found >> Relocating the loader and the BTX' >> >> ...and then reboots. >> >> The cd can be booted on my brothers Dell so I assume it's ok. >> Currently I have Gentoo on this machine and there's nothing wrong >> with the cdrom as it boots both Gentoo and Ubuntu-cds. >> >> I have a faint memory that when I had 5.0 on this machine (FBSD) >> it had alot of problems with 'BTX halted'. >> >> Is there any more information you need? >> >> // Sebastian Holmqvist >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable- >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > Did you try disabling fancy options like BIOS Shadowing, Power > Options, etc? Are you running the latest release of BIOS from your > mo'bo' manufacturer? Is the HDD and the CDROM on the same cable? If > yes, then what is the way they are attached? > > Regards > S. > > -- > -----------------+------------------------------------------------- > | Subhro Sankha Kar > \ / | GSM: +919831064613 -- Fax: +919831832913 > \./ | MSN:subhro@subhro.org -- Yahoo: subhro82 > (0Y0) | ICQ: 203567534 -- AIM: bsdboy1982 > --ooO--(_)--Ooo--+------------------------------------------------- > > Running the latest BIOS version yes. Also running Fail safe options with the exception on that I've but the cdrom on first boot device. The cable setup is IDE1 <- HD0 (M) <- Cdrom (S). So yes, they're on the same cable with manual M/S-setup. // Sebastian Holmqvist