Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:05:03 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: i386/10433: Unable to boot from hard-disk after install on 486dx-66 Message-ID: <199903061805.NAA00432@dignus.com>
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>Number: 10433 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: After install, can't boot from wd0 - "System halted" >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 6 10:10:01 PST 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Thomas David Rivers >Release: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 >Organization: Dignus, LLC >Environment: 486dx-66 with 32 meg, IDE hard drive, Adaptect 1542 with no attached SCSI devices; monochrome graphics card (MGA) - circa 1995. >Description: Installation via the 2-floppy method went without a hitch, but the machine cannot boot from the hard drive. (This machine was running 3.0-RELEASE before this.) On cold-boot from the IDE drive - a dump of some kind is produced followed by "System halted". The text of the dump is (typed by hand): int=0000000e err=00000006 efi=00010202 eip=0000102a eax=00000012 ebs=00000000 ecs=0000a000 edx=00000000 esi=00000000 edi=00000000 ebp=00094fe8 esp=00094fe4 cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip = f0 30 00 00 68 b0 30 00 - 00 e8 11 00 00 00 cd 31 ss:esp = 1f 20 00 00 f8 4f 09 00 - df 10 00 00 12 00 00 00 System halted At this point CNTRL-ALT-DEL restarts the machine, so it seems the boot loader hasn't really "started up" yet. Note, however, that booting from the floppy seems to work fine. As a work-around, I boot the mfs floppy and specify 0:wd(0,a)/kernel -c at the boot prompt which lets me alter some ports/irqs and brings the machine up fine. I've tried rewriting the boot sector with FDISK/MBR - didn't help, and have turned off all caches, and boot the machine in "slow" mode... nothing helps. (Again, the machine was running 3.0-RELEASE this morning, booting with no problem.) This is a critical problem for me - as the machine in question is the IP-gateway machine, etc... >How-To-Repeat: This is a "toughy" to repeat - as I've done a 3.1 install on other 486s without problems... >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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