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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:42:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Bruce Pea <bruce_pea@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Athlon Boot Problem
Message-ID:  <200007192342.QAA97098@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000719230400.74145.qmail@hotmail.com> from Bruce Pea at "Jul 19, 2000 06:04:00 pm"

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> I'm trying to setup a new server using FreeBSD v4.0, Asus K7 motherboard, 
> 600MHz Athlon CPU, 256meg PC-133 memory, 3ware two port ide raid controller, 
> floppy, ide cd-rom.
> 
> I've tried doing a normal install and tried booting the live file system on 
> cd-rom #2 in the FreeBSD cd-rom pack. No matter which way I try to boot I 
> keep getting the following dump:
> 
> int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030002 eip=000056af
> eax=00000208 ebx=00000000 ecx=c0010010 edx=00000100
> esi=0000000b edi=00000005 ebp=000003f4 esp=000003c4
> 
> 
> cs=f0000 ds=ec00 es=1000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db5
> 
> cs:esp=0f 32 66 0d 00 00 08 00-0f 30 c3 66 b9 10 00 01
> ss:esp=12 57 15 00 00 00 00 01-00 00 8d 1d 00 ec ba 1d

The BIOS is executing a privileged instruction (RDMSR) which we did not
emulate.  It has been fixed since 4.0 and will work fine in 4.1.  One
workaround is to disable the boot-virus detection in the BIOS setup.
 
> System Halted
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me what's going on here?
> 
> Thanks -
> Bruce

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John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com>


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