Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:46:44 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash Message-ID: <200507121246.45131.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200506252127.07387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BD30D3.4000203@paradise.net.nz> <200506252127.07387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4.<mumble> as I have installed plenty
> of systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only
> ISOs) and see how it goes.
- 5.1 works.
- 5.2 insta-reboot.
- 5.2.1 BTX halted
- 5.3 insta-reboot.
- 5.4 insta-reboot.
5.4 also spins in a loop forever printing register dumps, not sure if 5.2-5.3
do it as well.
The 5.2.1 BTX error says..
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.1
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS driver A: is disk0
BIOS 628kB/523200kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loadaer, Revision 1.1
(root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004)
|
int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030282 eip=0000fffe
eax=000042ad ebx=00000000 ecx=00000001 edx=0000009f
esi=00000008 edi=0000000c ebp=00000000 esp=00000404
cs=0000 ds=45e5 es=4bc8 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9b57
cs:eip=bb 00 00 00 00 c7 45 d8-00 00 00 00 8b 55 d4 66
83 7a 2c 00 74 27 0f b7-52 2c 90 8d b4 26 00 00
ss:eip=90 a4 00 f0 46 02 4a 91-00 00 46 00 00 00 00 00
9f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
BTX halted
> > That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see
> > if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times).
>
> OK, well I'll try it a few times and see :)
I tried this quite a number of times but haven't seen it succeed yet.
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