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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:58:11 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Subject:   Re: 6.2-RELEASE on Sun Fire X2100
Message-ID:  <200702231058.12307.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <86wt29qd3o.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <86wt29qd3o.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Friday 23 February 2007 07:20, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> I have a brand new Sun Fire X2100 server (Opteron 148, 2 GB RAM) on
> which I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE using a USB CD-ROM.
> The CD image is amd64-disc1 from ftp.no.freebsd.org, MD5 checksum OK.
> The server crashes while loading /boot/loader (eip=3D0000288b, IIRC).

BTX fault or a kernel crash?   Most USB BIOSen don't play well with BTX
as they all want to enter protected mode themselves rather than using
the (slower) BIOS routines.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin



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