FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE boot failure

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 08:41 am, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2004 20:29, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I got an error like this when I accidentally tried to use FreeBSD/amd64 on
> an i386-only machine.

That type of dump would have different instructions at cs:eip (probably an 
amd64-specific instruction).

> Maybe the BIOS is broken, but the chance that using vmware instead of his
> native hardware would produce the same error is low, isn't it?

I don't know how vmware is implemented, but it would probably not have the 
same problem since it probably has a much simpler BIOS.

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