Re: head -r339076's boot loader fails to boot threadripper 1950X system (BTX halted); an earlier version works [ WITHOUT_ZFS= fixes it ]

2018-10-21 Thread Mark Millard via freebsd-stable
found what change lead to the 1950X boot crashing >> with BTX halted.] >> >>> On 2018-Oct-20, at 12:44 PM, Mark Millard wrote: >>> >>>> [Adding some vintage information for a loader >>>> that allowed a native boot.] >>>> >>>

Re: head -r339076's boot loader fails to boot threadripper 1950X system (BTX halted); an earlier version works [ -r336532 broke it ]

2018-10-21 Thread Mark Millard via freebsd-stable
On 2018-Oct-20, at 10:32 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:04 PM Mark Millard wrote: > [I found what change lead to the 1950X boot crashing > with BTX halted.] > >> On 2018-Oct-20, at 12:44 PM, Mark Millard wrote: >> >> > [Adding some

Re: head -r339076's boot loader fails to boot threadripper 1950X system (BTX halted); an earlier version works [ -r336532 broke it ]

2018-10-21 Thread Mark Millard via freebsd-stable
[I found what change lead to the 1950X boot crashing with BTX halted.] On 2018-Oct-20, at 12:44 PM, Mark Millard wrote: > [Adding some vintage information for a loader > that allowed a native boot.] > > On 2018-Oct-20, at 4:00 AM, Mark Millard wrote: > >> I attemp

Re: head -r339076's boot loader fails to boot threadripper 1950X system (BTX halted); an earlier version works [ -r336532 broke it ]

2018-10-21 Thread Warner Losh
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:04 PM Mark Millard wrote: > [I found what change lead to the 1950X boot crashing > with BTX halted.] > > On 2018-Oct-20, at 12:44 PM, Mark Millard wrote: > > > [Adding some vintage information for a loader > > that allowed a native boot.] &

Re: head -r339076's boot loader fails to boot threadripper 1950X system (BTX halted); an earlier version works

2018-10-20 Thread Mark Millard via freebsd-stable
4 04 8b > 45 08 89 04 24 83 64 24-10 00 c7 44 24 08 01 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-f0 1d 89 00 00 00 00 00 > BTX halted I've no clue what of that output might be loader vintage specific. It might not be of use wit

head -r339076's boot loader fails to boot threadripper 1950X system (BTX halted); an earlier version works

2018-10-20 Thread Mark Millard via freebsd-stable
p=00091d60 cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=66 f7 77 04 0f b7 c0 89-44 24 0c 89 5c 24 04 8b 45 08 89 04 24 83 64 24-10 00 c7 44 24 08 01 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-f0 1d 89 00 00 00 00 00 BTX halted Th

BTX HALTED boot fail on sun fire 4140.

2016-07-31 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
The Sun Fire 4140 is a dual opteron machine. I'm getting BTX Halted and a processor register dump right after it prints the /boot/config -Dp (nothing else printed). Is there any value in trying the -current boot files to boot the 10.3 host? Are they newer? This happened as I tried to mov

AGAIN 10.1-RELEASE BTX halted on DELL PER900

2015-03-25 Thread Wu ShuKun
folks: zfsloader btx halt again on 10.1-RELEASE just like I posted before: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=12563100+0+archive/2014/freebsd-questions/20140716.freebsd-questions below is btx halted picture on 10.1-R http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/jopens/test/btx10.1.JPG It failed with 9.3

Re: Upgrade 9.1 -> 9.2 Invalid format / BTX halted

2013-10-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
03.10.2013 11:43, Thomas Krause пишет: > > I found, that "freebsd-update install" doesn't upgrade > all files in /boot. At least the loader binary was > zero: > >> ls -lh boot/loader* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 tom wheel 0B Oct 2 22:54 loader > -r--r--r-- 1 tom wheel 0B Oct 2 22:54 loader.4th >

Re: Upgrade 9.1 -> 9.2 Invalid format / BTX halted

2013-10-03 Thread Thomas Krause
deas what is wrong? Am 02.10.2013 23:21, schrieb Thomas Krause: Hi, I tried to upgrade one of my servers from FreeBSD 9.1 to 9.2 with freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE after the first reboot the system hangs on boot with Invalid format ... BTX halted It's a Supermicro X9SCL-F mainboard.

Upgrade 9.1 -> 9.2 Invalid format / BTX halted

2013-10-02 Thread Thomas Krause
Hi, I tried to upgrade one of my servers from FreeBSD 9.1 to 9.2 with freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE after the first reboot the system hangs on boot with Invalid format ... BTX halted It's a Supermicro X9SCL-F mainboard. I upgraded FreeBSD from 9.0 to 9.1 REL sucessfull, when 9.

XEN HVM + FreeBSD = BTX Halted?

2010-03-02 Thread kevin
Hello, I have been trying to install a FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE or FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE implementation. After finally getting the XEN HVM instance to see the boot disk , I am now seeing "BTX Halted" error messages right when it tries to boot. I did some research and this is a known

Re: BTX halted on boot

2008-07-30 Thread Dominik Meister
Hi Doug Thanks a lot for your answer. Doug Barton [Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:33:51AM -0700]: > Assuming you simply rebooted the machine and did no other changes, > this is likely to be disk corruption (probably due to age). If the > symptoms persist, try taking this opportunity to install 6.3 (yo

Re: BTX halted on boot

2008-07-30 Thread Doug Barton
Dominik Meister wrote: Hi We are experiencing a problem with one of our FreBSD 6.2 machines. The machine has been running fine for months until we had to reboot it. Now it doesn't boot anymore. After the boot loader we get what looks like a register dump: Assuming you simply rebooted the machi

Re: BTX halted on boot

2008-07-30 Thread Dominik Meister
Dominik Meister [Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:20:32PM +0200]: > Hi Sorry, wrong mailing list, will re-post it to freebsd-questions. Sorry, Dominik -- Dominik Meister My public GnuPG key is available at http://www.meisternet.ch/gpg.txt pgpYJrmAuAM4z.pgp Description: PGP signature

BTX halted on boot

2008-07-30 Thread Dominik Meister
89 43 0c 8b 47 0c-89 43 10 85 c0 74 0b 8b ss:esp=7f a5 6d c0 00 00 8f 00-00 e0 8f 00 64 6d 8f c0 75 3b 42 c0 a0 a7 6d c0-7f a5 6d c0 20 a5 6d c0 BTX halted and the machine reboots. Any suggestions what might be the problem? All I can find about "BTX halted" references to problems wh

Re: RELENG_7_0: KVA_PAGES=375, BTX halted

2008-01-14 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:27:11 -0800 Kip Macy wrote: > Read the comment in pmap.h: > /* > * Size of Kernel address space. This is the number of page table pages > * (4MB each) to use for the kernel. 256 pages == 1 Gigabyte. > * This **MUST** be a multiple of 4 (eg: 252, 256, 260, etc). > */ >

Re: RELENG_7_0: KVA_PAGES=375, BTX halted

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Wemm
Kip, do you think a CTASSERT might be in order? On Jan 14, 2008 1:27 PM, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Read the comment in pmap.h: > > /* > * Size of Kernel address space. This is the number of page table pages > * (4MB each) to use for the kernel. 256 pages == 1 Gigabyte. > * This **

Re: RELENG_7_0: KVA_PAGES=375, BTX halted

2008-01-14 Thread Kip Macy
On Jan 14, 2008 1:42 PM, Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kip, do you think a CTASSERT might be in order? Good idea. Your patch or mine? :-) -Kip > > On Jan 14, 2008 1:27 PM, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Read the comment in pmap.h: > > > > /* > > * Size of Kernel address space

Re: RELENG_7_0: KVA_PAGES=375, BTX halted

2008-01-14 Thread Kip Macy
Read the comment in pmap.h: /* * Size of Kernel address space. This is the number of page table pages * (4MB each) to use for the kernel. 256 pages == 1 Gigabyte. * This **MUST** be a multiple of 4 (eg: 252, 256, 260, etc). */ #ifndef KVA_PAGES #ifdef PAE #define KVA_PAGES 512 #else #d

RELENG_7_0: KVA_PAGES=375, BTX halted

2008-01-14 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hello, can you tell me which value may be used for KVA_PAGES? If I use KVA_PAGES=360, the system boots. If I use KVA_PAGES=375, the system halts at BTX stage: ftp://ftp.ipt.ru/pub/images/btx_halted/img014.jpg The kernel is GENERIC + SCHED_ULE, some IPFWIREWALL, etc. - localhost%% uname -a Fr

Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > > I should be getting another system like it soon so I can test it > > again, hopefully I'll get time to add some 'go slow' routines to > > the stack trace so I can actually record it :) > > btx_crx.patch doesn't apply cleanly to btx.S in FreeB

Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-11-09 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
t for fun, I tested this patch on an Acer Aspire 5672AWLMi laptop. >> (See this page[1] for my adventures with this laptop.) >> This laptop doesn't say "BTX halted", it just scrolls a lot of text >> (register dumps?) across the screen forever. >> > &g

Re: [Bulk] Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-11-09 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
d not saved new boot2. You need to install both boot block and >> loader obtained from the build with the realbtx patch applied, to you >> USB HDD drive. >> > > Just for fun, I tested this patch on an Acer Aspire 5672AWLMi laptop. > (See this page[1] for my adventur

Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-11-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hat > > I did not saved new boot2. You need to install both boot block and > > loader obtained from the build with the realbtx patch applied, to > > you USB HDD drive. > > Just for fun, I tested this patch on an Acer Aspire 5672AWLMi laptop. > (See this page[1] for my adventu

Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-11-09 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
> loader obtained from the build with the realbtx patch applied, to you > USB HDD drive. Just for fun, I tested this patch on an Acer Aspire 5672AWLMi laptop. (See this page[1] for my adventures with this laptop.) This laptop doesn't say "BTX halted", it just scrolls a lot of t

Re[2]: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-10-28 Thread Andrey Zonov
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:29:39PM +0400, Andrey Zonov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a problem with my notebook Dell INSPIRON 1501, if install >> FreeBSD-7.0-BETA1-amd64 to USB-HDD. Loader fails with "BTX halted", >> but boot from CD 7.0-BETA1

Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-10-26 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:29:39PM +0400, Andrey Zonov wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with my notebook Dell INSPIRON 1501, if install > FreeBSD-7.0-BETA1-amd64 to USB-HDD. Loader fails with "BTX halted", > but boot from CD 7.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso - is goo

loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted

2007-10-26 Thread Andrey Zonov
Hello, I have a problem with my notebook Dell INSPIRON 1501, if install FreeBSD-7.0-BETA1-amd64 to USB-HDD. Loader fails with "BTX halted", but boot from CD 7.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso - is good. Any ideas? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.o

Re: BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-10 Thread wsk
e4 61 58 50 e4 61-58 ee 5a c3 01 00 e4 c3 12 00 00 41 d0 0c 02 08-80 00 03 00 79 00 79 00 00 ss:esp=77 01 03 2c a1 00 08 2c-fa 02 00 e0 00 00 c0 9f 00 00 4e 80 f3 ee 00 f0-03 24 00 e0 06 02 00 80 BTX halted It looks like BIOS code at f000:c3d4 is trying to read a word from I/O p

Re: BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-09 Thread Martin Nilsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6.2R cd boot failed with follow error,and the MegaRAID fw version is FW_1L33 thanks with any info Hi, Firmware 1L33 is from 12/15/04, why not try 1L47 which is the latest and was released on 5/11/06 You can find it here: http://www.lsilogic.com/storage_home/products_

Re: BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-09 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
0 e4 61 58 50 e4 61-58 ee 5a c3 01 00 e4 c3 > >>12 00 00 41 d0 0c 02 08-80 00 03 00 79 00 79 00 00 > >> ss:esp=77 01 03 2c a1 00 08 2c-fa 02 00 e0 00 00 c0 9f > >> 00 00 4e 80 f3 ee 00 f0-03 24 00 e0 06 02 00 80 > >> BTX halted > >> >

Re: BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-09 Thread LI Xin
>> eax=8058 ebx=2000 ecx=0007 edx=fffa >> esi=f69b edi=00040170 epb=03d8 esp=0358 >> cs=f000 ds=0040 es=5d18fs=9fc0 gs=f000 ss=9e17 >> cs:eip=ec 50 e4 61 58 50 e4 61-58 ee 5a c3 01 00 e4 c3 >>12 00 00 41 d0 0c 02 08-80 00 03

Re: BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-09 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
ee 5a c3 01 00 e4 c3 12 00 00 41 d0 0c 02 08-80 00 03 00 79 00 79 00 00 ss:esp=77 01 03 2c a1 00 08 2c-fa 02 00 e0 00 00 c0 9f 00 00 4e 80 f3 ee 00 f0-03 24 00 e0 06 02 00 80 BTX halted It looks like BIOS code at f000:c3d4 is trying to read a word from I/O port 0xfffa, and this is c

BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-09 Thread wsk
50 e4 61-58 ee 5a c3 01 00 e4 c3 12 00 00 41 d0 0c 02 08-80 00 03 00 79 00 79 00 00 ss:esp=77 01 03 2c a1 00 08 2c-fa 02 00 e0 00 00 c0 9f 00 00 4e 80 f3 ee 00 f0-03 24 00 e0 06 02 00 80 BTX halted This message was sent

Re: 6.0-BETA2 through 4: BTX halted?

2005-09-25 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2005-09-17 at 06:45:51 Derek wrote: >> P.S: I just tried 5.4-RELEASE on the same X41, and BTX crashes there >> too... :( > I've seen these identical systems on earlier versions, and documented as > much as I could in: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/72960 Actually, it's mor

Re: 6.0-BETA2 through 4: BTX halted?

2005-09-16 Thread Derek
Dimitry Andric wrote: Anyone also seen this specific exception message? Most other OS install CD's (e.g. Linux, Windows) I throw at this machine boot without problems, btw. P.S: I just tried 5.4-RELEASE on the same X41, and BTX crashes there too... :( I've seen these identical systems on earl

6.0-BETA2 through 4: BTX halted?

2005-09-16 Thread Dimitry Andric
c edi= ebp=061c esp=0614 cs=0e01 ds=dcf1 es=fs=0010 gs= ss=dcf1 cs:eip=cc 7c bd 8b 45 d8 66 8b-78 30 e9 30 ff ff ff 8d 76 00 31 c0 8d 65 f4 5b-5e 5f c9 c3 b8 ab aa aa ss:esp=50 94 e7 e2 46 02 36 a2-18 00 40 0c 34 00 00 dc 00 10 00 00 ff ff 8b 5b-21 00 0

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-05 Thread Edwin Brown
Thanks for the ideas. It appears this machine has a pretty crippled BIOS from dell. There's no way to turn off DMA. So, I'm just going to stick with booting from the floppies for installs as required. Thanks for the thoughts. At least I've got something to work with if I run into this on another m

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-05 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:16:42AM -0500, Edwin Brown wrote: > It's a Dell XPS Pro 200n system tag 72V98 I seem to recall recently that I needed to disable ATA DMA from BIOS on a Dell to install 5.3-RELEASE. See if that helps. > CPU: Pentium Pro 200MHz > Chipset: Intel 82440FX > Memory: 128MB

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-05 Thread Edwin Brown
eax= ebx=0001 ecx= edx=00094fa0 > > esi=01164e7f edi=c8b66ff7 ebp=00093ff8 esp=7c24ddf4 > > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > > cs:eip=9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00 > > 9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-04 Thread Doug White
9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00 > ss:esp=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > BTX halted > -END ERROR- > Also, the 5.3.isos downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org fail to boot as well. > > It's not hardware relat

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-03 Thread Edwin Brown
ip=ff ff ff 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 ss:esp=c9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 29 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 BTX halted -END ERROR- On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 07:54:22 -0500,

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-03 Thread Edwin Brown
No, l, I didn't think it was me since the release CD's from ftp.freebsd.org also fail to boot. They give the same erorr messages with different memory addresses. But, I can recomplie with -0. I doubt that will work either. Best regards, Edwin On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:25:30 -0800, Michael C. Shul

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-02 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 09:09 pm, Edwin Brown wrote: > I didn't cut and paste that. I had to copy everything by hand. It's > correct in the make.conf. > > Best, > > Edwin > OK, did you try just using -O? There is a note about that in the make.conf file. -Mike

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-02 Thread Edwin Brown
c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00 > 9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00 > ss:esp=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff >ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > BTX halted > -END ERROR- > Also, the 5.3.isos do

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-02 Thread Edwin Brown
I didn't cut and paste that. I had to copy everything by hand. It's correct in the make.conf. Best, Edwin On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:00:22 -0800, Michael C. Shultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:48 pm, Edwin Brown wrote: > > I've built 5.3 Stable as of tonight 03/02/20

Re: 5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-02 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:48 pm, Edwin Brown wrote: > I've built 5.3 Stable as of tonight 03/02/2005 with the following in > make.conf > > CPUTYPE=i686 > CFLAGS=-02 -pipe > > It was built on a p4. CFLAGS should be -O2 not -02 and you really may want to concider just -O -Mike _

5.3 STABLE Boot CD Fails on PPRO 200 (BTX halted)

2005-03-02 Thread Edwin Brown
b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00-9a c0 00 00 9a c0 00 00 ss:esp=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff BTX halted -END ERROR-

Re: BTX halted

2005-01-04 Thread Boris B. Samorodov
n FreeBSD/amd64. > > like i said i played with bios settings and nothing really worked. > can somebody help? > > thanks.. > > > > hi all... > > > > i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine... > > i got the discs and they are ok but when i st

Re: BTX halted

2005-01-03 Thread kalin mintchev
somebody help? thanks.. > hi all... > > i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine... > i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot > stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose. > i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios i

RE: BTX halted

2005-01-01 Thread Subhro
reebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kalin mintchev > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:04 > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: BTX halted > > hi all... > > i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine... > i got t

BTX halted

2004-12-31 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine... i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose. i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non of that helped - i couldn't f

Work-Around for 'BTX Halted' issue ... does one exist?

2003-02-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
G'day all ... I have a server (Tyan L-ET MB, Adaptec 2000s controller, FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE) that started to give me a BTX Halted error message ... so far, I haven't been able to find a solution to the problem ... is there some way of booting the server off of floppies, maybe? I'

Re: BTX halted boot failure during 4.6 install

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Durian
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:51:16 PDT, Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >See if you can track down a HP Navigator CD -- that usually has all the >updates you need on it. It should update all the hardware in the system >that it knows about, including the management controller and the RAID >contr

BTX halted boot failure during 4.6 install

2002-06-20 Thread Mike Durian
I am trying to install 4.6 onto a HP Netserver LC 2000r that is currently running Linux. I cannot get the system to boot from either floppy or CDROM. I receive a BTX halted message. Here is the register dump: int=000d err= efl=00030002 eip=5cb2 eax=0001 ebx=0008 ecx

Re: pxeboot btx halted problem

2002-01-23 Thread Jason K. Fritcher
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Michael Smith wrote: > You can rebuild and reinstall just libstand; it is self-contained and has > no particularly special issues. Thanks for the tip. I recompiled libstand and loader picked it up out of the /usr/src tree, so I didn't even need to install it. > Glad to have

Re: pxeboot btx halted problem

2002-01-22 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Danny Braniss wrote: > Before I posted my first message, I flashed the last Boot Agent onto the > NIC, and after seeing your message, I hunted down and flashed the last BIOS > for the motherboard which was from mid 97. Unfortunately, it is still > crashing with exactly the s

Re: pxeboot btx halted problem

2002-01-22 Thread Jason K. Fritcher
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Danny Braniss wrote: > im no expert in reading btx dump, but from past experience, upgrading the > firmware of the BIOS/NIC solved the problem. Before I posted my first message, I flashed the last Boot Agent onto the NIC, and after seeing your message, I hunted down and flash

Re: pxeboot btx halted problem

2002-01-21 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Ladislav Kostal wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Jason K. Fritcher wrote: > > > I'm trying to get a machine to netboot with the pxeboot loader and a Intel > > > PRO/100 S network card. I built pxeboot with tftp instead of nfs support, > > > as I am only looking to load a kern

btx halted errors

2001-05-15 Thread _R_j_M_
hello, when i boot up i get this error right after it tries to load the /boot/defaults/loader.conf file it halts with this error message BTX halted int 5 err 0 efl 00010206 eip 0012 eax 0039 ebx 00023920 ecx 00023934 edx esi edi

Re: Strange BTX halted error

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Dillon
:... :> dangerously dedicated partitions. It's what prompted me to fix the :> disklabel code to allow boot blocks to be installed on slices. :> Unfortunately, the only way I could fix my particular problem was :> to get rid of my dangerously dedicated partition which meant blowin

Re: Strange BTX halted error

2001-05-01 Thread Gordon Tetlow
No, we don't use dangerously dedicated since the word "dangerous" was in it. Figured it might not be a good thing =) Thanks though. -gordon On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > I was getting BTX halted failures due to BIOS confusion related to > dangerously

Re: Strange BTX halted error

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Dillon
:The very last example, just before the SEE ALSO section for the :'disklabel' manual page shows how to do this. But be warned: it blows :away the disk. : : :http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disklabel&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-RELEASE&format=html : opps

Re: Strange BTX halted error

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Dillon
:On Tue, 1 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : :> I had the exact same problem when I had 'SCSI Bios' enabled on my :> Adaptec 2940. :> :> Turned it off and that stopped. Not sure what the problem is, but I :> know that is the solution for me :) I was getting BTX halte

Re: Strange BTX halted error

2001-05-01 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Well, that's not going to work, as I don't have an Adaptec and I need the onboard SCSI to boot =/ Thanks for the help though. If someone can decipher what all the register's mean, I can provide access to the boot loader binary and source (4.1.1-RELEASE I believe). -gordon On Tue, 1 May 2001 [EMA

Re: Strange BTX halted error

2001-05-01 Thread flash
p=00093258 esp=00093258 > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > cs:eip=89 11 83 40 08 04 c9 c3-55 89 e5 8b 45 08 8b 48 > ss:esp=98 32 09 00 d8 91 00 00-8b 42 08 ff 60 01 03 00 > BTX halted > > I was wondering if anyone else has seen this. The problem seems somewha

Strange BTX halted error

2001-05-01 Thread Gordon Tetlow
=00093258 cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=89 11 83 40 08 04 c9 c3-55 89 e5 8b 45 08 8b 48 ss:esp=98 32 09 00 d8 91 00 00-8b 42 08 ff 60 01 03 00 BTX halted I was wondering if anyone else has seen this. The problem seems somewhat intermittent. It doesn't *always* happen b

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting - PXE/diskless

2001-02-12 Thread Francesco Casadei
0UW SCSI controller and an IBM DDRS-34560W SCSI disk. I created one large slice in dangerously dedicated mode and I wasn't able to boot anymore: I got "BTX halted" and the registers dump. I low-level formatted the disk using the controller BIOS, recreated the slice (this time in co

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinuxhardware

2000-10-30 Thread Fred Clift
I've messed with these a lot and I'm pretty sure that the bios is trying to be 'compatible' with the geometry information it finds on the disk, Theoretically, if you set up a disk with one brand X disk controller, you'll get a different fake CHS mapping than you would with a brand Y controller.

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h

2000-10-30 Thread Siegbert Baude
> > I have recently created a disklabel on a slice of an ata disk with > > disklabel. Of course i had to create an entry in /etc/disktab to do > > that, but encountered no other problem. > Last time I had to do that, I used dd to copy the first couple of > blocks from a working disk onto the ne

Dangerously dedicated (was Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h)

2000-10-30 Thread Bill Moran
John Baldwin wrote: > It is kind of semantic. However, on the alpha it is hardly dangerous. Nor > do we fake a MBR on the alpha (which is what makes it dangerous). The alpha > architecture doesn't use MBR's, but the PC arch does. Thus, having a disklabel > on the alpha is normal, having one at

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h

2000-10-27 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote: >:> # optional dd if you are paranoid >:> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=32k count=4 >:> fdisk -I da0 >:> disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto >:> >:> That's much preferable to having to use sysinstall if all you want to >:> do is initializ

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h

2000-10-27 Thread Matt Dillon
:> # optional dd if you are paranoid :> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=32k count=4 :> fdisk -I da0 :> disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto :> :> That's much preferable to having to use sysinstall if all you want to :> do is initialize a label on a slice. : :Yes, this is de

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h

2000-10-27 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote: >:> I think you are specifying the wrong arguments to disklabel; I >:> seem to rememebr a -w/-W distinction... >: >:Nope. >: >:> In any case, I'm running with a disklabel inside a DOS partition >:> on all but one box of mine, and always have been. I installed >:>

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h

2000-10-27 Thread Matt Dillon
:> I think you are specifying the wrong arguments to disklabel; I :> seem to rememebr a -w/-W distinction... : :Nope. : :> In any case, I'm running with a disklabel inside a DOS partition :> on all but one box of mine, and always have been. I installed :> 4.1 on my laptop that way. : :Sysinstall

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware

2000-10-27 Thread Michel Talon
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:44:28AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I am also seeing BTX failures, but only from manual commands. The lsdev > command will cause BTX to fail (and halt) when it scans my CDROM/DVD. I am > using 4.1.1-RELEASE. I have a ABIT KA7-100 board (which uses the VIA686A >

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware

2000-10-27 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Message - From: "Paul Saab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Danny Braniss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 9:02 AM Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinu

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware

2000-10-27 Thread Danny Braniss
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: }Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: } }He was not seeing a PXE bug, it was a loader issue with the BIOS. }The PXE bug you are seeing is with anything build 078 or earlier. }Intel has a bug in their rom which they fixed back in March of this year. }

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware

2000-10-27 Thread Paul Saab
Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: > }This is really weird. I have two valinux rackmount boxes, duel cpu's. > } > }I was testing the PXE stuff and booting one of the boxes regularly. > }All of a sudden every time I reboot I get: > } >

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware

2000-10-27 Thread Danny Braniss
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: }This is really weird. I have two valinux rackmount boxes, duel cpu's. } }I was testing the PXE stuff and booting one of the boxes regularly. }All of a sudden every time I reboot I get: } i've seen the same, i just reboot it, and it works. s