Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:07:05 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: 5.0 boot failure on laptop Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0301152143510.99712-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>
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I'm not sure where to ask this. 5.0 isn't released yet so I don't think questions is the place but since it's on a laptop I'll try here. If there's a better list for it, let me know and I'll bounce it there too. Just before sending this I also included Current. I have a Micron Transport XPE. I need to run 5.0 for the cardbus support. It has the TI 1130 Cardbus in it. The problem is the CD won't boot. The 4.7 CD boots in it fine, and the 5.0 CD that I burned from the ISO image boots fine in another computer. I've tried both miniinst and disk1 images. I get the CD Loader message and everything up to Starting... Then it all goes downhill. BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 int=00000005 err=00000000 efl=00010286 eip=0001768c eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=00000000 edi=00000000 epb=00000000 esp=00094824 cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip= 62 61 73 65 20 61 74 20-25 70 2c 20 74 6f 70 20 61 74 20 25 70 0a 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ss:esp= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 BTX halted Ugly, huh? So I yank out the battery, run it on the AC adapter and plug in the floppy. Now I have the CD and the floppy to work with. I made up the two floppies, it boots up, it complains about not being able to load if_awi.ko, I tell it to keep going and up comes the menu. I select UPGRADE (it has 4.7 on it now), choose some distribution stuff, go into the label editor (there's no way to tell it what partition is the swap partition without deleting it and recreating it), set the mount point and hit Q. It checks out the filesystem and prompts me for the location to save /etc. I take the default (/var/tmp/etc /var/tmp exists and there is no /var/tmp/etc) and it fails. I tell it to continue and after doing some things that went by quicker than I could read them it tried to move the existing kernel - that failed. I looked at the debug screen (ALT-F2) and after a bunch of cpio (4799 blocks) there were a couple of tar processes that exited on signal 12 and the second blew core. Two messages followed, Bad system call. Then a couple more and they did the same, then sh exited on signal 12 and that's the last of the messages. So where do I go from here? Am I out of luck and stopped on 4.7? Vince. -- Fast, inexpensive internet service 56k and beyond! http://www.pop4.net/ http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com Internet radio: It's not file sharing, it's just radio. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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