Hi, thanks for the advice - do you think I could just install the btx loader by itself ? Also why would top and ps not work ??
thanks again for all the help Doron ----- Original Message ----- From: "DoubleF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: Re: Make World > Recently, Doron Shmaryahu wrote: > > > This time there were no errors but when the > > machine rebooted it just says btx halted and a whole lot of other stuff. It > > sits there and does not boot. > > If it's not the kernel, then let me give it a try. I can think > of one (1) way of BTX being loaded but panicking. If BTX is > not entirely in the area accessible by BIOS (~8G on my old one), > and the BIOS lies to the boot0 loader that it has loaded it (while > it hasn't) then BTX will be half-loaded and will panic as soon as > it reaches the not loaded code. > > It is `perfectly' possible to have a kernel be loadable but not BTX > (i have such a monster). I have obsereved the same situation when > trying to get BTX loaded using packet interface to the disk. > You could try using boot0cfg(8) with "-o nopacket". > > Mind, > >> Use of the `packet' option may cause `boot0' to fail, > >> depending on the nature of BIOS support. > (boot0cfg(8)) > > By the way, your old 4.5 system could be `immune' to this as f.e. my > 4.4-R doesn't absolutely require BTX to run properly. And yes, > when you interrupt your boot, BTX is skipped. > > Could it be just a broken BTX binary? > > Good luck, > DoubleF > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
