Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:43:14 -0700 From: Chris Jones <cdjones-freebsd-amd64@novusordo.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64/94989: BTX Halts on Sun Fire X2100 w/6.1-BETA4 (amd64) and 5.4-RELEASE (x86) Message-ID: <67611F0F-D849-46A8-BFBB-C1BE54C5F46E@novusordo.net>
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Ken Gunderson wrote: > This uses the Tyan 2865 mainboard. I have a couple machines that use > this board. The BIOS that ships is bogus- machines wouldn't boot > (don't remember the details of why since it's been a while now). > Updating the BIOS fixes it. Just built a couple of these last week and > noted the most recent BIOS is dated March 2006. You might want to > double check Sun's site and see if they've released updates. Following your advice, I've updated the BIOS, which is now at version 1.07 (from Sun's supplemental disk version 1.2 [0]). This BIOS version seems to be from January '06 rather than March '06. Sadly, I'm still getting the BTX loader error when trying with 6.1- BETA4 amd64. As I noted in the gnats entry, a snapshot of OpenBSD 3.9 amd64 runs quite happily, which would be fine for my purposes except that I need jails. Does anyone have any further suggestions or a more recent BIOS flash that they could send my way? Cheers, Chris 0: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/downloads.jsp
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