From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 11:31:23 2003 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 0473216A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:31:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (217-ip-163.nccn.net [209.79.217.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8423343FE3 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB2JVCeF029903; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:31:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200312021931.hB2JVCeF029903@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:31:12 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis To: friar_josh@tcbug.org In-Reply-To: <20031202171118.GB29628@tcbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BTX halts installing 5.x 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: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:31:23 -0000 On 2 Dec, Josh Paetzel wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz 512K cache system and I am getting the > following error: > > CD Loader 1.01 > > Building the boot loader arguements > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > > int=00000005 err=00000000 efl=00019286 eip=0001c8a4 > eax=000000a3 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > esi=cce65d00 edi=00000000 ebp=00000000 esp=0009407c > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > cs:eip=62 6f 6f 74 2e 6e 65 74-69 66 2e 69 70 00 62 6f > 6f 74 2e 6e 65 74 69 66-2e 6e 65 74 6d 61 73 6b > ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > BTX halted > > I've tried warm booting after this and I get the same results. I've tried 5.0-RELEASE, 5.0-DP1, > 5.1-RELEASE, and three different snapshots, all of which work fine on my other machines, including one > other SMP box. It's also worth noting that 4.8-RELEASE and 4.9-RELEASE install fine on this box. > > I can boot 4.9 and post a dmesg if that would help, but to briefly describe the hardware: > > Intel PR440FX Mainboard > Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz 512K Cache CPUs > Adaptec 7880 SCSI controller > 4.3 gig IBM Wide SCSI-2 Disks > Intel EtherExpress Pro LAN adapter > I've tried a couple different video cards, Cirrus Logis and SIS PCI > 320 Megs of Registered ECC SDRAM Could this be a result of the switch from emulated floppy bootable CDs to 'no emulation' bootable CDs that happened with between the 4.x and 5.x branches? If you can do a "make release" to create you own .iso images, try doing it with the EMUL_BOOT variable defined, which will generate the .iso images with the emulated-floppy boot code.