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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:16:34 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        elijah@xor.com (Eli Klein)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strage happenings with kern.flp/mfsroot.gz
Message-ID:  <199811161916.VAA03516@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.4.05.9811160937020.3617-100000@xor.com> from Eli Klein at "Nov 16, 98 09:40:23 am"

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Eli Klein wrote:

> jordan had committed some things for me to enable me to install onto a
> 486sx25 laptop, but instead, this is what i got:
> 
> Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter:
> 
> -
> int=0000000d  err=003394d0  efl=00010286  eip=001e4017
> eax=001e4000  ebx=001c3b8b  ecx=00000004  edx=0002784c
> esi=001ce47e  edi=0002767d  ebp=00095964  esp=0009e928
> cs=0008  ds=0010  es=0010    fs=0010  gs=0010  ss=0010
> cs:eip=cf fe 08 2a b0 b7 6f 74-f8 6b dd 6e ea e2 d8 61
> ss:esp=c3 2a fa 9a d2 94 00 00-00 00 00 80 02 00 50 a0
> System halted
> 
> I don't know if the assembler output will help at all, but I thought I'd
> send it anyways.. again, i have a toshiba T3400C, a 486sx25.

Although this is a BTX-generated register dump, the exception is
actually happening a few bytes into the kernel startup code.  Or what
should be the kernel startup code: cs:eip isn't pointing at anything
valid.  BTX has been told to pass control to the kernel (the 0x94d2 on
the stack is the return address of the BTX "exec" syscall) but I'd
suspect the kernel just hasn't been loaded correctly.

It looks as though the BTX client thinks the kernel entry point is
0x1e4000, but that's just a guess (eax may have been altered).

Doubt that this helps much in itself, but that's what can be gotten
from the register dump.  Maybe Jordan, or someone else, has some
ideas based on this.

-- 
Robert Nordier

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