Problem booting FBSD 5.4-stable..

Subhro subhro.kar at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 05:01:47 PDT 2005


Sebastian Holmqvist sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/1/2005 17:04:
> Specs:
> Amd Thunderbird 800
> Abit KT7-raid (VIA KT133)
>
> 256 MB
> 30 GB IDE
> Cdrom
> Floppy
>
> Problem: The computer just prints three rows...
>
> 'Building the boot loader arguments
> Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> Relocating the loader and the BTX'
>
> ...and then reboots.
>
> The cd can be booted on my brothers Dell so I assume it's ok.
> Currently I have Gentoo on this machine and there's nothing wrong with 
> the cdrom as it boots both Gentoo and Ubuntu-cds.
>
> I have a faint memory that when I had 5.0 on this machine (FBSD) it 
> had alot of problems with 'BTX halted'.
>
> Is there any more information you need?
>
> // Sebastian Holmqvist
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Did you try disabling fancy options like BIOS Shadowing, Power Options, 
etc? Are you running the latest release of BIOS from your mo'bo' 
manufacturer? Is the HDD and the CDROM on the same cable? If yes, then 
what is the way they are attached?

Regards
S.

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