From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 09:52:51 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 B004116A4C0 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5313243FE3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 32742 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2003 16:46:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Oct 2003 16:46:59 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9AGkoce026495; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:46:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20031010122834.GB73122@pixies.tirloni.org> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:46:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Giovanni P. Tirloni" X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: BTX Halted (AMD 5x86 133MHz) 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: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:52:51 -0000 On 10-Oct-2003 Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote: > Hi, > > I've got the following message while trying to boot 5.1-RELEASE on a > AMD 586 133MHz, 24MB and a 850MB hard disk that I was using in another > machine: > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > BIOS 640kB/23552kB avaiable memory > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Thu Jan 5 00:52:26 GMT 2003) > Warning -- Unmatched control word: leave > | > int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030202 eip=0000ffff > eax=0000097c ebx=00000000 ecx=00000001 edx=00001801 > esi=00000000 edi=00000000 ebp=00000000 esp=00000402 > cs=ffff ds=0000 es=9eb5 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9e42 > cs:eip=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 > ss:esp=4a 91 00 00 02 02 00 00-08 00 02 02 00 00 07 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 7c 00-00 00 54 48 09 00 78 66 > BTX halted > > The AMIBIOS Date is 10/10/94 and the release date is 05/06/96. I don't > think it's possible to update this thing. > > Sometimes the machine keeps rebooting and others it just hangs. Any > workaround? Does this box work ok with a 4.x release CD? It may be your RAM. The Warning message is kind of weird. It seems you were probably in the BIOS trying to read some bits off of disk and the BIOS headed off to lala-land. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/