On 14-Sep-01 Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Kent Stewart wrote:
>>
>> > Mike Smith wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > So.. if I read you right, booting correctly for > 1024 cylinders works
>> > > > if boot0 knows about it. Isn't boot0 the one in the MBR, not in the
>> > > > fbsd
>> > > > slice? Does this mean that boot1 and boot2 should work just fine if
>> > > > they
>> > > > are loaded by another kind of MBR loader (say, Grub), and they find
>> > > > out
>> > > > that they are placed beyond the 1023th cylinder?
>> > >
>> > > This should work, yes.
>> >
>> > I tried this with a boot1 from FreeBSD 4.4-rc and get a BTX error. I
>> > had to go back to the boot1 from 4.3 before I could boot.
>>
>> That could be serious. Can you post a brief description of your
>> hardware, together with the BTX register dump if possible? boot1 was
>> changed to address some problems with certain hardware, so it is
>> important to know if other incompatibilities have been introduced.
>
> The hardware is Abit VP6 mb w/dual 866 coppermines & 256 MB of PC-133
> memory. Disk0 is a Maxtor 30 GB, disk1&2 are on the HPT-370 controller
> and are also Maxtor 30 GB drives. The 2 HD's on the HPT-370 are
> identical models. All are rated at ATA-100. The loader has been Win XP
> Pro since beta2 and runs FreeBSD about half of the time.
>
> BTX - Register dump
>
> int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00030216 eip=00000de7
> eax=00001d3a ebx=000030ff ecx=0000001f edx=000000ce
> esi=00000001 edi=00000009 ebp=000003fe esp=000003b1
> cs=2364 ds=0000 es=0204 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9dc5
> cs:eip=0f 00 00 00 70 00 00 00-00 00 00 68 1e 00 00 00
> ss:esp=b9 0d 00 00 00 fe 03 c2-03 02 01 80 00 1f 00 01
> BTX halted
00000000 0F0000 sldt [bx+si]
00000003 007000 add [bx+si+0x0],dh
00000006 0000 add [bx+si],al
00000008 0000 add [bx+si],al
0000000A 00681E add [bx+si+0x1e],ch
0000000D 0000 add [bx+si],al
That doesn't look to be very sane.
Are you sure you haven't mixed an old version of boot2 with a new boot1 or vice
versa?
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