Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:32:24 -0600 (CST) From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0611131330110.27952@harper.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <200611131339.30301.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611091928420.3164@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net> <200611131339.30301.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Yeah, the X4100 has an mpt(4) controller. Mine is running the original BIOS release (6464), and runs FreeBSD fine. You can try fiddling with the BIOS revision by downloading replacements from Sun's website. -Nathan On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 09 November 2006 13:34, Michiel Boland wrote: >> Hi. I was trying to install FreeBSD on a Sun X4100. I managed to >> pxeboot it and install 6.2-BETA3 onto one of the hard drives. >> >> So far, no problems. >> But when it finally gets to boot from disk it halts with >> >> - >> int=0000000d err=0000001a efl=00030287 eip=0000290f >> eax=1400000a ebx=00000b3c ecx=00000000 edx=0000cf00 >> esi=00000d1c edi=00000001 ebp=00000206 esp=00000200 >> cs=cf00 ds=9a00 es=9a00 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9a00 >> cs:eip=cc 68 32 06 ff 34 e8 db-fc 83 c4 04 89 46 fe 5f >> 5e c9 c3 55 8b ec 1e 33-c0 8e d8 a0 75 04 3c 00 >> ss:esp=1c 0d 02 00 00 00 34 02-32 46 1c 0d 00 00 00 14 >> 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-1c 0d 02 00 00 00 00 00 >> BTX halted > > They have a debug breakpoint (int3 instruction) in their BIOS code. See if > you can beat the manufacturer into submission for releasing debug BIOS code. > Is this an mpt(4) card by chance? > > -- > John Baldwin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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