Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:29:34 +0300 From: Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX Halted (AMD 5x86 133MHz) Message-ID: <200310151029.34492.andy@athame.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031010154921.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20031010154921.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Friday 10 October 2003 22:49, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 10-Oct-2003 Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Oct 10), John Baldwin said:
> >> On 10-Oct-2003 Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
> >> > I've got the following message while trying to boot 5.1-RELEASE
> >> > on a AMD 586 133MHz, 24MB and a 850MB hard disk that I was using
> >> > in another machine:
> >> >
> >> > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
> >> > Console: internal video/keyboard
> >> > BIOS drive C: is disk0
> >> > BIOS 640kB/23552kB avaiable memory
> >> >
> >> > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> >> > (root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Thu Jan 5 00:52:26 GMT 2003)
> >> > Warning -- Unmatched control word: leave
> >>
> >> Does this box work ok with a 4.x release CD? It may be your RAM.
> >> The Warning message is kind of weird. It seems you were probably
> >> in the BIOS trying to read some bits off of disk and the BIOS
> >> headed off to lala-land.
> >
> > Could there be a typo or other error in one of /boot/loader's
> > scripts? "Warning -- Unmatched control word: leave" would be
> > generated by resolveAbsBranch() in sys/boot/ficl/words.c.
>
> Given that no one else has reported such a warning and that some of
> the registers in his dump had weird values, I would really chalk this
> up to hardware.
I have one box which displayed similar characteristics when I tried
installing 5.0R/5.1R/5-CURRENT on it. As I needed the machine in a
hurry, I tried 4.8R and it worked fine. This would be about a month
ago.
I don't currently have access to the system to get machine details, I
will try and get these later. It was quite an old box, probably
something like a P233 (PII I guess), and no idea from here what
mobo/BIOS is in it.
A.
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