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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE boot failure 
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, ALeine wrote:

> eax=000000c1  ebx=0000273b  ecx=fe510821  edx=00000000
> esi=00000006  edi=00098db6  ebp=00090000  esp=00000000
> cs=002b  ds=0033  es=0033    fs=0033  gs=0033  ss=0033
> cs:eip=f0 2b 92 00 00 00 00 bc-89 00 00 af f1 e6 f8 00
>        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 54 3d 00 00 00 00 00
> ss:esp=2b 00 00 01 1b f6 13 50-08 19 f6 f4 f7 f3 c3 f9
>        6f 91 6c 2c f8 ef 0d 6c-10 f2 7b 77 08 59 2e f9
> BTX halted

Hm... we'll need to disassemble the code there, but typically these types
of crashes are caused by BIOS bugs. Try upgrading your BIOS.

What brand/model machine is this?

Other things you might try:

. Turn off 'Legacy USB' if you don't have a USB keyboard
. Disable DMA on IDE disks (Known issue on older compaqs)

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