4.10 Install failure.

[Tyler Parrott]

Thanks for all the advice, it is much appreciated.  I'll give the
floppies a try.

That error that you pasted is pretty much exactly what I get, although
I'm not sure whether or not the register values are the same:)

Again, I'll try with the floppies:)

Thanks!

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:46:05 -0700 (PDT), K. Greenwood
<k_greenwood1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Tyler Parrott <tparrott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, right after I sent that email I read about the
> > image already
> > being bootable.  I supposed I should do my homework
> > before making my
> > posts:)
> >
> > Anyways, the image is burnt correctly, so I'm back
> > to where I started
> > with no idea how to move forward...
> 
> <snipped stuff ensuring good cd burn, and system
> unable to boot from cd>
> 
> First off, I have never pretended to know what I am
> talking about... I am just a random subscriber.  Take
> what I say with a grain of salt.
> 
> That being out of the way, a quick little comment.
> 
> You previously mentioned you had a compaq evo (?).
> Have you tried making bootable floppies and trying
> them?
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES
> 
> Also, have you tried experimenting with your bios
> settings?  Perhaps Advanced, Device options?
> Specifically the ACPI settings... (I kinda doubt this
> will have any effect, however).
> 
> Was the error similar to the following? (after loading
> bootstrap loader)
> 
> |
> int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00030246  eip=00003034
> eax=0000205d  ebx=00000004  ecx=00002000  edx=0000288c
> esi=000008d5  edi=0006290c  ebp=00001538  esp=00001502
> cs=f000  ds=ee00  es=ee00  fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=ee00
> cs:eip=0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75
>        08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75
> ss:esp=0c 29 06 00 d5 08 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00
>        04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00
> BTX halted
> 
> Hopefully someone who knows more than I (accounts for
> pretty much everyone on this list...) comprehends what
> this means.  I'm without clue.
> 
> Hth, and good luck.
> 
> 
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