From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 19:01:00 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 3A93537B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:01:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC53A4401A for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip.stjohn.ac.th ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA27797 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:58:38 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030701084316.00a24500@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: stjohn.stjohn.ac.th:mcrogerm@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 09:00:56 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Roger Merritt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: BTX halted 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: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 02:01:00 -0000 I recently got a new, large hard drive for one of my two servers and transferred everything over from the old 4GB drive. So then I wanted to take the old drive and combine it with the other old drive -- my idea is to transfer /usr/home to one of them and leave the rest of the system on the other. We also got new machines for our students, which gave me another box that is just a little better than the box I'm currently using -- 200MHz instead of 166MHz. The thing is, I'm not entirely sure what chip is in the 200Mhz box. The old hard drive was compiled for an i686, while the other server is compiled for an i586. So I plugged the old hard drive in and tried to boot up. I got a screen dump: BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00010246 eip=00001934 eax=00021d60 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=ffffffff esi=00000000 edi=00020c34 ebp=00094bec esp=00094bdc cs=0026 db=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=0f 44 d6 89 55 fc 46 83-2c b7 00 74 05 83 fa ff ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff BTX halted So I took the drive back to its original box, booted up with no problem, recompiled the kernel with *both* i586 and i686 in the CPU type section, booted up again to make sure it worked. Took it back to the other box -- same problem. BTX halted. Took it back to the original box and recompiled as GENERIC. Booted up to make sure it worked, took it back to the other box -- same problem. I've done a google search without finding anything that helps. Can anyone suggest a solution? I can boot up with a floppy and run the fixit disk on the new box, so I may end up just wiping the disk and making a clean install, but if I can preserve the working system it would be nice. Also, I would have to install over ftp, which takes quite a while. -- Roger