Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:05:46 +0300 From: user local <local.usr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: what's next? (error after BTX started) Message-ID: <a540cd4205072305054a2e19f5@mail.gmail.com>
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This computer I'm writing from is a Compaq Evo D310m/845 r BU ALL I found enthusiastic articles about FreeBSD, so I decide to download the stuff (FreeBSD5.4RELEASEi386) and I start to load it. The result follows... Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found Relocated the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console> internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/252928kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 8 05:59:07 UTC 2005) | int=0xd err=0x0 efl=0x30246 eip=0x3034 eax=0x205d ebx=0x4 ecx=0x2000 edx=0x288c esi=0x8d5 edi=05b74c ebp=0x1538 esp=0x1502 cs=0xf000 ds=0xee00 es=0xee00 fs=0x0 gs=0x0 ss=0xee00 cs:eip=0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75 08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75 ss:esp=4c b7 05 00 d5 08 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00 04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00 BTX halted End (that's from me:)) Note: an underscore blinks under the e from esi I was advertise by a small banner that the computer was designed for an obscure system produced by a company in Redmont, somewhere in the West o USA, Windows XP, but I didn't mean it. Is that true? I'd like to deny this, but I'm not so good to provide an argument, i.e. installation w/ 1280x1024x32/70Hz X Windows. Hope you will help me guys, until my boss change his mind of Open Source and Friends (however, take your time, various linuces worked on this box). But seriously, I noticed that something strange is happening w/ booting even Micro$ on theese boxes, as well on some compaq laptops: the only floppy I manage to boot from was a Partition Image one, and when I installed an Open on a laptop, I discover a hidden partition at the begining of the hard disc. Several Live CDs and other booting CDs stuff, an W2k including, also failed. I have 20 boxes like this, and that's happend not only on a specific one, so it can not be a CD drive problem. Help me, please! just once! Bundy, Al, esq.help
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