RE: BTX Halted (AMD 5x86 133MHz)

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:46:56 -0400 (EDT)
On 10-Oct-2003 Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  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_at_wv1u.btc.adaptec.com, Thu Jan  5 00:52:26 GMT 2003)
>  Warning -- Unmatched control word: leave
>  |
>  int=0000000d  err=00000000 efl=00030202  eip=0000ffff
>  eax=0000097c  ebx=00000000 ecx=00000001  edx=00001801
>  esi=00000000  edi=00000000 ebp=00000000  esp=00000402
>  cs=ffff  ds=0000  es=9eb5  fs=0000  gs=0000 ss=9e42
>  cs:eip=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
>  ss:esp=4a 91 00 00 02 02 00 00-08 00 02 02 00 00 07 00
>         00 00 00 00 00 00 7c 00-00 00 54 48 09 00 78 66
>  BTX halted
> 
>  The AMIBIOS Date is 10/10/94 and the release date is 05/06/96. I don't
>  think it's possible to update this thing.
>   
>  Sometimes the machine keeps rebooting and others it just hangs. Any
>  workaround?

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.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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Received on Fri Oct 10 2003 - 07:52:51 UTC

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