From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 16:14:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whiterose.net (whiterose.net [199.245.105.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538CE37B6A1; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ccrider@localhost) by whiterose.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0G0Ef821841; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:14:41 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:14:41 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Myers To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, vurinovsky@newmail.ru Subject: RE: BTX halted In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 15-Jan-01 Robert Myers wrote: > >> I"ve installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE and on the first boot > >> from HDD it came with this: > >> > >> F1 FreeBSD > >> \ > >> int=00000000 err=00000000 efl=00030202 eip=0000bd25 > >> eax=0016607f ebx=00000008 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > >> esi=000003f0 edi=000098fe ebp=000003d2 esp=000003b9 > >> cs=f000 ds=f000 es=0040 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9e77 > >> cs:eip=66 f7 f1 59 50 0f b6 c9-8b c2 66 c1 ea 10 f7 f1 > >> ss:esp=00 0b 80 10 00 00 01 00-00 00 55 aa 00 00 00 42 > >> BTX halted > >> > >> Configuration: > >> P250MMX > >> 96M RAM > >> 8G IDE HDD > >> 3Com 905 (Vortex) NIC > >> NE2000-compatible ISA NIC > >> > >> This computer (apart from HDD) was working under SCO 5.0.2 > >> for 2 years so I don"t suspect a faulty hardware. > > 00000000 66F7F1 div ecx > 00000003 59 pop cx > 00000004 50 push ax > 00000005 0FB6C9 movzx cx,cl > 00000008 F8 clc > > and %ecx is zero, so you got a divide by zero fault. Did you install your disk > as Dangerously Dedicated? If so Don't Do That. > John, Are you suggesting that installing your disk as dangerously dedicated can cause core dumps? -Bob ccrider@whiterose.net Systems Administrator for whiterose.net http://www.whiterose.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message