Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 23:16:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD? Message-ID: <200001050716.XAA00673@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2000 15:41:57 EST." <XFMail.000102154157.vev@michvhf.com>
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> >> Don't have a spare floppy to put on it. I can (and did) boot 2.2.8 on it > >> tho. > > > > Er. It'd be _really_ nice if you could make just a little effort to help > > us out here. > > You're saying I should maybe take the e-commerce server down or some other > mission critical machine to take a drive out of it? If you don't want to > help, don't answer. It's not like it'd be really that different from other > problems I've had. Uh. A floppy drive costs about $15, including tax. What's your time worth? What's a speedy resolution to this problem worth? Helping me helps you. Refusing to help me hurts you, me, and everyone else that ends up in your position. > >> Here's the register dump: > >> > >> int=0000000e err=00000000 efl=00010046 eip=00009548 > >> eax=c05b302d ebx=c05bafa4 ecx=00008c08 edx=00000002 > >> esi=c05bb000 edi=00001933 ebp=00000000 esp=0c5baf94 > >> cs=0008 ds=0010 es=0010 fs=0010 gs=0010 ss=0010 > >> cs:eip=ac c8 31 00 00 00 fe c9-74 0c b0 2d 80 f9 08 74 > >> ss:esp=10 00 00 00 d8 96 00 00-18 92 00 00 00 18 00 00 > >> System halted > > > > Interesting. Can you tell me _exactly_ what it's output leading up to > > the dump? Can you hit the spacebar when the twiddly thing pauses briefly > > and get the boot: prompt? If you can, tell me what it prints, and then > > hit Enter. > > \boot.config:-P > Keyboard: yes > > >> Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader > > boot: > - > BTX Loader 1.00 BTX Version is 1.01 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive B: is disk1 > BIOS drive C: is disk2 > BIOS drive C: is disk3 <-- This does seem odd, but that's what it says. > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 640/31744kB > (jkh@cathair, Tue May 18 03:22:02 GMT 1999) > > Hit [Enter] to boot... <-- at this time I also hit space to catch up writing > > Type '?' for a list... > disk0s4a:> boot > /kernel text=0x1a064a data=0x2ec430+0x1f318 / > > Then comes the register dump I typed in in the last message. Ack. At this point in time, we're stumped. It looks like you're trying to install 3.1 here, but the code sequence that you're running doesn't actually exist in the 3.1-RELEASE loader. If you boot this particular CDROM, does it always die at _exactly_ the same place? The avenues for code corruption are: - bad CDROM (will always be the same error) - bad memory (may vary locations, etc.) - bad CD drive/cabling/controller (may vary locations) It's hard for it to be a code/BIOS bug, as in the 3.1-vintage loader IIRC the BTX page (where the crash is) is write-protected. > > Please, always be as verbose as possible with your problem reports. > > Nobody enjoys squeezing blood from a stone, and it drastically reduces > > your chances of getting a useful answer. > > There's not much there to give. It's not like it's failing after it > probes a device. If it was I wouldn't have to put up with comments like > these, I could figure it out myself. Believe me, asking questions on > these lists is the least desirable thing I ever have to do with FreeBSD. The information you've provided this time around could easily have been provided in the first message, and it would have made the whole experience so much less painful and frustrating for all of us. Is it that hard to help us to help you? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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