5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

[Doug White]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Edwin Brown wrote:

> I've built 5.3 Stable as of tonight 03/02/2005 with the following in make.conf
>
> CPUTYPE=i686
> CFLAGS=-02 -pipe
>
> It was built on a p4.
>
> I went to install this on my trusty firewall machine and I get the following
> error:
> -----BEGIN ERROR-----
> CD Loader 1.2
>
> Building the boot loader arguments
> 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=0000000d  err=000000c0  efl=00010a47  eip=00015528
> eax=00000000 ebx=00000001 ecx=ffffffff edx=00094fa0
> esi=01164e7f  edi=c8b66ff7  ebp=00093ff8  esp=7c24ddf4
> cs=002b  ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033
> cs:eip=9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00
>            9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00
> ss:esp=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>             ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> BTX halted
> -----END ERROR-----
> Also, the 5.3.isos downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org fail to boot as well.
>
> It's not hardware related as I'm able to pop in a OpenBSD3.6 snapshot
> and boot from that.

Probably not a hardware failure, but certainly a misbehaving BIOS or
bootable card. What system/motherboard is this? Is there a BIOS update
available?

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