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
