BTX halts installing 5.x
Josh Paetzel
friar_josh at tcbug.org
Tue Dec 2 12:53:23 PST 2003
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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