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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:49:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        "Giovanni P. Tirloni" <gpt@tirloni.org>
Subject:   Re: BTX Halted (AMD 5x86 133MHz)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20031010154921.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031010171530.GC77306@dan.emsphone.com>

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On 10-Oct-2003 Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 10), John Baldwin said:
>> On 10-Oct-2003 Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
>> >  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
>> >  |
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Could there be a typo or other error in one of /boot/loader's scripts? 
> "Warning -- Unmatched control word: leave" would be generated by
> resolveAbsBranch() in sys/boot/ficl/words.c.

Given that no one else has reported such a warning and that some of
the registers in his dump had weird values, I would really chalk this
up to hardware.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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