From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 19:45:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEA516A585 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A645743D1F for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:45:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 23940 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2004 19:45:19 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Nov 2004 19:45:19 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.235] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAFJj0s7076045; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:45:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:29:56 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200411091747.iA9Hl81Q075289@marlena.vvi.at> In-Reply-To: <200411091747.iA9Hl81Q075289@marlena.vvi.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411151429.56336.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: ALeine Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE boot failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:45:21 -0000 On Tuesday 09 November 2004 12:47 pm, ALeine wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE from the ISO CD image, but it won't > boot: > > F1 DOS > F2 Linux > F3 FreeBSD > > Default: F3 > > _ > int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00000282 eip=000947cf > eax=000000c1 ebx=0000273b ecx=fe510821 edx=00000000 > esi=00000006 edi=00098db6 ebp=00090000 esp=00000000 > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > cs:eip=f0 2b 92 00 00 00 00 bc-89 00 00 af f1 e6 f8 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 54 3d 00 00 00 00 00 > ss:esp=2b 00 00 01 1b f6 13 50-08 19 f6 f4 f7 f3 c3 f9 > 6f 91 6c 2c f8 ef 0d 6c-10 f2 7b 77 08 59 2e f9 > BTX halted > > This was with the HDD as ad0. I changed it to ad2 and used my > other drive with FreeBSD 4.10 as ad0 to see what was going on. > Here's the beef: Your BIOS is in lala land perhaps. Note that the stack pointer is 0, so it's hard to tell how it got into such a funk. I'm not sure how you can debug this, except perhaps to try turning off things like network cards as boot devices and turning off DMA mode in the BIOS for your hard drives. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org