On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4.<mumble> as I have installed plenty > of systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only > ISOs) and see how it goes.
- 5.1 works. - 5.2 insta-reboot. - 5.2.1 BTX halted - 5.3 insta-reboot. - 5.4 insta-reboot. 5.4 also spins in a loop forever printing register dumps, not sure if 5.2-5.3 do it as well. The 5.2.1 BTX error says.. 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 1.1 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS driver A: is disk0 BIOS 628kB/523200kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loadaer, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004) | int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030282 eip=0000fffe eax=000042ad ebx=00000000 ecx=00000001 edx=0000009f esi=00000008 edi=0000000c ebp=00000000 esp=00000404 cs=0000 ds=45e5 es=4bc8 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9b57 cs:eip=bb 00 00 00 00 c7 45 d8-00 00 00 00 8b 55 d4 66 83 7a 2c 00 74 27 0f b7-52 2c 90 8d b4 26 00 00 ss:eip=90 a4 00 f0 46 02 4a 91-00 00 46 00 00 00 00 00 9f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 BTX halted > > That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see > > if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times). > > OK, well I'll try it a few times and see :) I tried this quite a number of times but haven't seen it succeed yet. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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