Problem booting FBSD 5.4-stable..

[Sebastian Holmqvist]

On 1 Oct 2005, at 14:01, Subhro wrote:

> Sebastian Holmqvist sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/1/2005 17:04:
>
>> Specs:
>> Amd Thunderbird 800
>> Abit KT7-raid (VIA KT133)
>>
>> 256 MB
>> 30 GB IDE
>> Cdrom
>> Floppy
>>
>> Problem: The computer just prints three rows...
>>
>> 'Building the boot loader arguments
>> Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
>> Relocating the loader and the BTX'
>>
>> ...and then reboots.
>>
>> The cd can be booted on my brothers Dell so I assume it's ok.
>> Currently I have Gentoo on this machine and there's nothing wrong  
>> with the cdrom as it boots both Gentoo and Ubuntu-cds.
>>
>> I have a faint memory that when I had 5.0 on this machine (FBSD)  
>> it had alot of problems with 'BTX halted'.
>>
>> Is there any more information you need?
>>
>> // Sebastian Holmqvist
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> Did you try disabling fancy options like BIOS Shadowing, Power  
> Options, etc? Are you running the latest release of BIOS from your  
> mo'bo' manufacturer? Is the HDD and the CDROM on the same cable? If  
> yes, then what is the way they are attached?
>
> Regards
> S.
>
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Running the latest BIOS version yes. Also running Fail safe options  
with the exception on that I've but the cdrom on first boot device.
The cable setup is IDE1 <- HD0 (M) <- Cdrom (S). So yes, they're on  
the same cable with manual M/S-setup.

// Sebastian Holmqvist