BTX halts installing 5.x
othermark
atkin901 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 2 13:01:32 PST 2003
Hi,
I have this same machine setup, and although I haven't tried running/
booting 5.x lately, I had the same symptoms -- cold boot works,
warm boots, BTX halted. I suspect that this may be the critical
fix:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.src/15784/match=btx
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
>
>
> I've tried googling for a solution for this as well as perused the
> -CURRENT archives and haven't seen anything relevent to this issue.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Josh Paetzel
>
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