Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:30:08 GMT From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: amd64/111992: BTX failed - HP Laptop dv2315nr Message-ID: <200704220330.l3M3U8hB022079@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To: "Joe t." <joe4usmc@aol.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/111992: BTX failed - HP Laptop dv2315nr
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:28:17 -0500
On 4/21/07, Joe t. <joe4usmc@aol.com> wrote:
> The boot loader appears to initiate properly, and then loops endlessly.
> It shows these few lines of text:
>
> 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
> Consoles: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS CD is cd0
> BIOS drive C: is disk0
> BIOS 631kB/915520kB available memory
>
> Freebsd/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> (root@portnoy.cse.buffalo.edu, Fri Jan 12 06:34:52 UTC 2007)
>
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
>
>
> This is followed by an endless loop of text which scrolls too fast on the screen to read. I believe it is alternating two lines of text.
>
> cst = 00000000 abc = 00000000 xyz = 00000000
> BTX = 00000000 xyz = 00000000 abc = 00000000
>
> The zeros are alpha-numeric sequences which I can't read.
>
I had the same problem booting FreeBSD/AMD64 (6.1 & 6.2 RELEASE) from
the install CD on a HP dv8000 system.
I found a work around, in which if I press the spacebar until I see on
the screen that it is loading the kernel (i.e. /boot/kernel/kernel),
it will boot into the installer. After you get the system installed,
it won't have any problems booting off the HD.
see PR 105514
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105514
Scot
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