Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:51:42 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@tcbug.org> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BTX halts installing 5.x Message-ID: <20031202205142.GC29628@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200312021931.hB2JVCeF029903@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <20031202171118.GB29628@tcbug.org> <200312021931.hB2JVCeF029903@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:31:12AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote: > On 2 Dec, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz 512K cache system and I am getting the > > following error: > > > > CD Loader 1.01 > > > > Building the boot loader arguements > > 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=00000005 err=00000000 efl=00019286 eip=0001c8a4 > > eax=000000a3 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > > esi=cce65d00 edi=00000000 ebp=00000000 esp=0009407c > > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > > cs:eip=62 6f 6f 74 2e 6e 65 74-69 66 2e 69 70 00 62 6f > > 6f 74 2e 6e 65 74 69 66-2e 6e 65 74 6d 61 73 6b > > 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 > > > > I've tried warm booting after this and I get the same results. I've tried 5.0-RELEASE, 5.0-DP1, > > 5.1-RELEASE, and three different snapshots, all of which work fine on my other machines, including one > > other SMP box. It's also worth noting that 4.8-RELEASE and 4.9-RELEASE install fine on this box. > > > > I can boot 4.9 and post a dmesg if that would help, but to briefly describe the hardware: > > > > Intel PR440FX Mainboard > > Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz 512K Cache CPUs > > Adaptec 7880 SCSI controller > > 4.3 gig IBM Wide SCSI-2 Disks > > Intel EtherExpress Pro LAN adapter > > I've tried a couple different video cards, Cirrus Logis and SIS PCI > > 320 Megs of Registered ECC SDRAM > > Could this be a result of the switch from emulated floppy bootable CDs > to 'no emulation' bootable CDs that happened with between the 4.x and > 5.x branches? > > If you can do a "make release" to create you own .iso images, try doing > it with the EMUL_BOOT variable defined, which will generate the .iso > images with the emulated-floppy boot code. Booting the install floppies worked fine. Thanks for the tip. :) Josh
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