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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:46:44 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash
Message-ID:  <200507121246.45131.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200506252127.07387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BD30D3.4000203@paradise.net.nz> <200506252127.07387.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4.<mumble> as I have installed plenty
> of systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only
> ISOs) and see how it goes.

=2D 5.1   works.
=2D 5.2   insta-reboot.
=2D 5.2.1 BTX halted
=2D 5.3   insta-reboot.
=2D 5.4   insta-reboot.

5.4 also spins in a loop forever printing register dumps, not sure if 5.2-5=
=2E3=20
do it as well.



The 5.2.1 BTX error says..
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 1.1
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS driver A: is disk0
BIOS 628kB/523200kB available memory

=46reeBSD/i386 bootstrap loadaer, Revision 1.1
(root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004)
|
int=3D0000000d  err=3D00000000  efl=3D00030282  eip=3D0000fffe
eax=3D000042ad  ebx=3D00000000  ecx=3D00000001  edx=3D0000009f
esi=3D00000008  edi=3D0000000c  ebp=3D00000000  esp=3D00000404
cs=3D0000  ds=3D45e5  es=3D4bc8    fs=3D0000  gs=3D0000  ss=3D9b57
cs:eip=3Dbb 00 00 00 00 c7 45 d8-00 00 00 00 8b 55 d4 66
       83 7a 2c 00 74 27 0f b7-52 2c 90 8d b4 26 00 00
ss:eip=3D90 a4 00 f0 46 02 4a 91-00 00 46 00 00 00 00 00
       9f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
BTX halted

> > That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see
> > if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times).
>
> OK, well I'll try it a few times and see :)

I tried this quite a number of times but haven't seen it succeed yet.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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