Re: BTX Halted (AMD 5x86 133MHz)

From: Andy Fawcett (andy_at_athame.co.uk)
Date: 10/15/03

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    To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:29:34 +0300

    On Friday 10 October 2003 22:49, John Baldwin wrote:
    > On 10-Oct-2003 Dan Nelson wrote:
    > > In the last episode (Oct 10), John Baldwin said:
    > >> On 10-Oct-2003 Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
    > >> > I've got the following message while trying to boot 5.1-RELEASE
    > >> > on a AMD 586 133MHz, 24MB and a 850MB hard disk that I was using
    > >> > in another machine:
    > >> >
    > >> > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
    > >> > Console: internal video/keyboard
    > >> > BIOS drive C: is disk0
    > >> > BIOS 640kB/23552kB avaiable memory
    > >> >
    > >> > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
    > >> > (root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Thu Jan 5 00:52:26 GMT 2003)
    > >> > Warning -- Unmatched control word: leave
    > >>
    > >> Does this box work ok with a 4.x release CD? It may be your RAM.
    > >> The Warning message is kind of weird. It seems you were probably
    > >> in the BIOS trying to read some bits off of disk and the BIOS
    > >> headed off to lala-land.
    > >
    > > Could there be a typo or other error in one of /boot/loader's
    > > scripts? "Warning -- Unmatched control word: leave" would be
    > > generated by resolveAbsBranch() in sys/boot/ficl/words.c.
    >
    > Given that no one else has reported such a warning and that some of
    > the registers in his dump had weird values, I would really chalk this
    > up to hardware.

    I have one box which displayed similar characteristics when I tried
    installing 5.0R/5.1R/5-CURRENT on it. As I needed the machine in a
    hurry, I tried 4.8R and it worked fine. This would be about a month
    ago.

    I don't currently have access to the system to get machine details, I
    will try and get these later. It was quite an old box, probably
    something like a P233 (PII I guess), and no idea from here what
    mobo/BIOS is in it.

    A. 

    -- 
Andy Fawcett                                     | andy@athame.co.uk
                                                 | tap@kde.org
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