From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 6 5:46:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A787E14DDE; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 05:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id OAA14267; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:46:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20000106144633.A13911@foobar.franken.de> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:46:33 +0100 From: Harold Gutch To: Mike Smith Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD? References: <20000105191920.D11588@foobar.franken.de> <200001060829.AAA01025@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <200001060829.AAA01025@mass.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:29:18AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:29:18AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > On a (semi-)related topic - I tried to install FreeBSD > > 3.3-RELEASE on my "Gericom" notebook last week and _always_ > > failed when booting from either the CD or from the 3.3 bootdisks > > I had created. > > The booting process would halt at either the point where it says > > > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > > > > or it would pass exactly this point and then halt at the next > > screen (the one where you select wether you want to config your > > kernel in visual mode etc.). At one of these points it would > > simply freeze, no panic, no dump, nothing. > > More details (eg. the output when you use 'boot -v' on the install > floppies) would be helpful. Whoops, yes, I forgot to attach it to my last mail. This is the output when booting from the CD. I doubt that the verbose output from a bootdisk will look different, but I could give it a try... > It'd be interesting to know if you have the same problem with the boot > floppies for a recent 4.0 snapshot. It halts at exactly the same point. bye, Harold -- Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have been lost waiting for NT to reboot. Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="3.3-bootdisk" Booting from Removable Media /boot.config: -P Keyboard: yes - 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 FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 639/64512kB (jkh@highwing.cdrom.com, Thu Sep 16 22:16:41 GMT 1999) | Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. disk0s4a:> set boot_verbose disk0s4a:> boot /kernel text=0x1be13e data=0x2ecd04+0x1e790 syms=[0x4+0x25610+0x4+0x25ace] BIOS basemem (639K) != RTC basemem (640K), setting to BIOS value Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #5: Fri Sep 17 00:41:25 GMT 1999 jkh@highwing.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS Calibrating clock(s) ... TSC clock: 432639332 Hz, i8524 clock: 1193055 Hz CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION not specified - using old calibration method --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="4.0-bootdisk" Booting from Removable Media /boot.config: -P Keyboard: yes BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/64512kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 (root@usw2.freebsd.org, Wed Jan 5 13:03:02 GMT 2000) /kernel text=0x1c5c39 data=0x25e74+0x19a04 syms=[0x4+0x29f50+0x4+0x2c0fc] Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: - Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel] in 7 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. ok set boot_verbose ok boot Copyright (c) 1992-2000 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-20000105-CURRENT #4: Wed Jan 5 16:08:46 GMT 2000 root@usw2.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS Calibrating clock(s) ... TSC clock: 432654589 Hz, i8524 clock: 1193097 Hz CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION not specified - using old calibration method --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message