RE: 5.0 boot failure on laptop
John Baldwin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 16-Jan-2003 Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > I'm not sure where to ask this. 5.0 isn't released yet so I don't think > questions is the place but since it's on a laptop I'll try here. If > there's a better list for it, let me know and I'll bounce it there too. > Just before sending this I also included Current. > > I have a Micron Transport XPE. I need to run 5.0 for the cardbus support. > It has the TI 1130 Cardbus in it. > > The problem is the CD won't boot. The 4.7 CD boots in it fine, and the > 5.0 CD that I burned from the ISO image boots fine in another computer. > I've tried both miniinst and disk1 images. > > I get the CD Loader message and everything up to Starting... Then it all > goes downhill. > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > > int=00000005 err=00000000 efl=00010286 eip=0001768c > eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > esi=00000000 edi=00000000 epb=00000000 esp=00094824 > > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > > cs:eip= 62 61 73 65 20 61 74 20-25 70 2c 20 74 6f 70 20 > 61 74 20 25 70 0a 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > 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 > > Ugly, huh? Eek, your CD drive must be hosed or something. It's trying to execute text: "base at %p, top at %p" (that's the stuff at CS:EIP) and is getting badly confused as a result. > So I yank out the battery, run it on the AC adapter and plug > in the floppy. Now I have the CD and the floppy to work with. > I made up the two floppies, it boots up, it complains about not > being able to load if_awi.ko, I tell it to keep going and up > comes the menu. > > I select UPGRADE (it has 4.7 on it now), choose some distribution > stuff, go into the label editor (there's no way to tell it what > partition is the swap partition without deleting it and recreating > it), set the mount point and hit Q. For an upgrade to 5.0, the upgrade facility is probably a bad idea. Backing up your data and doing a fresh install is probably the safest way to upgrade. :-/ -- John Baldwin <[email protected]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message