From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 2 11:55:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles551.castles.com [208.214.165.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC64614C0B; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:55:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12178; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 12:01:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001022001.MAA12178@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Vince Vielhaber Cc: Mike Smith , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2000 14:44:34 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 12:01:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The chances are good, however, that your BIOS is doing something silly, > > and you won't be able to boot FreeBSD off CDROM on that board. Can you > > boot from floppy? > > 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. > 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. 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. -- \\ 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