FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE boot failure

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 09 November 2004 12:47 pm, ALeine wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE from the ISO CD image, but it won't
> boot:
>
> F1   DOS
> F2   Linux
> F3   FreeBSD
>
> Default: F3
>
> _
> int=00000006  err=00000000  efl=00000282  eip=000947cf
> eax=000000c1  ebx=0000273b  ecx=fe510821  edx=00000000
> esi=00000006  edi=00098db6  ebp=00090000  esp=00000000
> cs=002b  ds=0033  es=0033    fs=0033  gs=0033  ss=0033
> cs:eip=f0 2b 92 00 00 00 00 bc-89 00 00 af f1 e6 f8 00
>        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 54 3d 00 00 00 00 00
> ss:esp=2b 00 00 01 1b f6 13 50-08 19 f6 f4 f7 f3 c3 f9
>        6f 91 6c 2c f8 ef 0d 6c-10 f2 7b 77 08 59 2e f9
> BTX halted
>
> This was with the HDD as ad0. I changed it to ad2 and used my
> other drive with FreeBSD 4.10 as ad0 to see what was going on.
> Here's the beef:

Your BIOS is in lala land perhaps.  Note that the stack pointer is 0, so it's 
hard to tell how it got into such a funk.  I'm not sure how you can debug 
this, except perhaps to try turning off things like network cards as boot 
devices and turning off DMA mode in the BIOS for your hard drives.

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