From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 12 03:16:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 315D716A41C for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:16:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0EE43D46 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:16:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6C3GoV7039036; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:46:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mark Kirkwood Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:46:44 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BD30D3.4000203@paradise.net.nz> <200506252127.07387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200506252127.07387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart20762942.GNRSiP74C7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507121246.45131.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.82 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:16:57 -0000 --nextPart20762942.GNRSiP74C7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4. 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. =2D 5.1 works. =2D 5.2 insta-reboot. =2D 5.2.1 BTX halted =2D 5.3 insta-reboot. =2D 5.4 insta-reboot. 5.4 also spins in a loop forever printing register dumps, not sure if 5.2-5= =2E3=20 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 =46reeBSD/i386 bootstrap loadaer, Revision 1.1 (root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004) | int=3D0000000d err=3D00000000 efl=3D00030282 eip=3D0000fffe eax=3D000042ad ebx=3D00000000 ecx=3D00000001 edx=3D0000009f esi=3D00000008 edi=3D0000000c ebp=3D00000000 esp=3D00000404 cs=3D0000 ds=3D45e5 es=3D4bc8 fs=3D0000 gs=3D0000 ss=3D9b57 cs:eip=3Dbb 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=3D90 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. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart20762942.GNRSiP74C7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC0zYd5ZPcIHs/zowRAq3OAKCEnz4q7UoV+NZjL2KBZba6gwMr5QCfdRhj U8pNZv3PzqXG7oOPJ25l//k= =C2Ll -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart20762942.GNRSiP74C7--