Re: BTX Halted (AMD 5x86 133MHz)

From: Dan Nelson <dnelson_at_allantgroup.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:15:30 -0500
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_at_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.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson_at_allantgroup.com
Received on Fri Oct 10 2003 - 08:15:32 UTC

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