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Date:      Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:16:42 -0500
From:      Edwin Brown <edwin.brown@gmail.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)
Message-ID:  <8b6eae9605030507165d4c6cae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050304233347.A4084@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <8b6eae960503022048b90c457@mail.gmail.com> <20050304233347.A4084@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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It's a Dell XPS Pro 200n system tag 72V98

CPU:  Pentium Pro 200MHz
Chipset: Intel 82440FX 
Memory: 128MB ECC SIMM
BIOS: A06 released 01/08/1998 (the last bios for this computer) 
IDE: (MSI DVD drive) (bootable secondary channel master)
       (Maxtor 40GB hard disk) (bootable primary channel master) 

I've also installed a promise ATA/133 card and tried to boot the
computer with the
CD and hard drive attached to that instead of the system board.
However, that fails as well.

I've gone ahead an installed from the floppies with the IDE devices
attached to the motherboard. For some reason the floppies boot fine.

Thanks for the reply,

Edwin




On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:34:28 -0800 (PST), Doug White
<dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Edwin Brown wrote:
> 
> > I've built 5.3 Stable as of tonight 03/02/2005 with the following in make.conf
> >
> > CPUTYPE=i686
> > CFLAGS=-02 -pipe
> >
> > It was built on a p4.
> >
> > I went to install this on my trusty firewall machine and I get the following
> > error:
> > -----BEGIN ERROR-----
> > CD Loader 1.2
> >
> > Building the boot loader arguments
> > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> > Relocating the loader and the BTX
> > Starting the BTX loader
> >
> > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
> >
> > int=0000000d  err=000000c0  efl=00010a47  eip=00015528
> > eax=00000000 ebx=00000001 ecx=ffffffff edx=00094fa0
> > esi=01164e7f  edi=c8b66ff7  ebp=00093ff8  esp=7c24ddf4
> > cs=002b  ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033
> > cs:eip=9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00
> >            9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00
> > ss:esp=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> >             ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > BTX halted
> > -----END ERROR-----
> > Also, the 5.3.isos downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org fail to boot as well.
> >
> > It's not hardware related as I'm able to pop in a OpenBSD3.6 snapshot
> > and boot from that.
> 
> Probably not a hardware failure, but certainly a misbehaving BIOS or
> bootable card. What system/motherboard is this? Is there a BIOS update
> available?
> 
> --
> Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
>



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