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

From: Edwin Brown (edwin.brown_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/05/05

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To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>

    It's a Dell XPS Pro 200n system tag 72V98

    CPU: Pentium Pro 200MHz
    Chipset: Intel 82440FX
    Memory: 128MB ECC SIMM
    BIOS: A06 released 01/08/1998 (the last bios for this computer)
    IDE: (MSI DVD drive) (bootable secondary channel master)
           (Maxtor 40GB hard disk) (bootable primary channel master)

    I've also installed a promise ATA/133 card and tried to boot the
    computer with the
    CD and hard drive attached to that instead of the system board.
    However, that fails as well.

    I've gone ahead an installed from the floppies with the IDE devices
    attached to the motherboard. For some reason the floppies boot fine.

    Thanks for the reply,

    Edwin

    On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:34:28 -0800 (PST), Doug White
    <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote:
    > 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?
    >
    > --
    > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
    > dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
    >
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