From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 2 12:41:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF00A14CC7 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 12:41:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 3379 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Jan 2000 20:41:57 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200001022001.MAA12178@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 15:41:57 -0500 (EST) X-Face: *0^4Iw) To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD? Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Jan-00 Mike Smith wrote: >> > 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. 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. > >> 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. > 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. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN: $24.95/mo or less - 56K Dialup: $17.95/mo or less at Pop4 Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message