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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Hi Kris, or whoever,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>This could be a BTX 1.01 versus BTX 1.02 matter. Well out of my
league.</DIV>
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<DIV>My intent was to install Alpha 05242008 on a test bed.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Repeatable solid failure using the
Alpha 05242008 ISO image loading from cd. The test bed mobo is a recent
Intel with an Intel dual CPU and 2GB. System has been running both
installed PC-BSD 1.5.1 (from system ATA hard disk) and installed Xubuntu 8.04
(from USB flash drive) without any problems.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>I have confirmed the same Alpha
05242008 cd loads correctly on another older PC - an HP Presario with Intel
Celeron. Did not continue to install (not a test bed) but could
have. I also confirmed the ISO image used against a fresh ftp
copy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>On the failing system I can see
"<FONT color=#ff0000><FONT color=#000000>BTX version</FONT> </FONT>1.02" and
then some screens of text fly by. What I can visually catch looks
ordinary enough. Nothing unexpected seen but I'm not sure exactly what to
look for. A few lines just before the problem:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>ad0: 20GB maxtor at
ata0-master UDMA-100</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>acd0: CDROM
<LTN323/DQ15> at ata0-slave PIO4</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2> . . . usual SCSI
illegal request stuff . . </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>cd0 at ata0 bus 0 target 1 lun
0</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>cd0: <LITEON . . . .
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>cd0: 16.0 MB/s
transfer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>cd0: cd present [355743 x
2048 byte records]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Manual root filesystem spec
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2> . . . . .
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2> . . . . .</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Mountroot> {solid cursor block
displays}</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Using a "?" entry displays 12
devices from ad0s1f to fd0. The only file system to use that I know is
ufs.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Using "ufs:cd0" entry grinds on the
cd for a second or so, displays "Trying to mount root from ufs:cd0" and returns
to the Mountroot> prompt. All the suggested devices have a similar
response. None succeed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>I specifically confirmed just
now that my FreeBSD 6.3 cd (as downloaded on 2-26-08) loads and
installs correctly on the test bed. (As of course it did a couple of
months ago.) As it loads the display indicates the BTX
version is 1.01.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Peter
Brewster</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>