Re: BTX halts installing 5.x

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:31:12AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> On  2 Dec, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz 512K cache system and I am getting the 
> > following error:
> > 
> > CD Loader 1.01
> > 
> > Building the boot loader arguements
> > 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=00000005  err=00000000  efl=00019286  eip=0001c8a4
> > eax=000000a3  ebx=00000000  ecx=00000000  edx=00000000
> > esi=cce65d00  edi=00000000  ebp=00000000  esp=0009407c
> > cs=002b  ds=0033  es=0033    fs=0033  gs=0033 ss=0033
> > cs:eip=62 6f 6f 74 2e 6e 65 74-69 66 2e 69 70 00 62 6f
> >        6f 74 2e 6e 65 74 69 66-2e 6e 65 74 6d 61 73 6b
> > ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > BTX halted
> > 
> > I've tried warm booting after this and I get the same results.  I've tried 5.0-RELEASE, 5.0-DP1, 
> > 5.1-RELEASE, and three different snapshots, all of which work fine on my other machines, including one 
> > other SMP box.  It's also worth noting that 4.8-RELEASE and 4.9-RELEASE install fine on this box.
> > 
> > I can boot 4.9 and post a dmesg if that would help, but to briefly describe the hardware:
> > 
> > Intel PR440FX Mainboard
> > Dual Pentium Pro 200mhz 512K Cache CPUs
> > Adaptec 7880 SCSI controller
> > 4.3 gig IBM Wide SCSI-2 Disks
> > Intel EtherExpress Pro LAN adapter
> > I've tried a couple different video cards, Cirrus Logis and SIS PCI
> > 320 Megs of Registered ECC SDRAM
> 
> Could this be a result of the switch from emulated floppy bootable CDs
> to 'no emulation' bootable CDs that happened with between the 4.x and
> 5.x branches?
> 
> If you can do a "make release" to create you own .iso images, try doing
> it with the EMUL_BOOT variable defined, which will generate the .iso
> images with the emulated-floppy boot code.

Booting the install floppies worked fine.  Thanks for the tip. :)

Josh