From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 19:34:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D6D16A4D4 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:34:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nathanw@uchicago.edu) Received: from mx01.uchicago.edu (mx01.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A2443DCD for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:33:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nathanw@uchicago.edu) Received: from harper.uchicago.edu (harper.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.7]) by mx01.uchicago.edu (8.13.6.20060614/8.12.9) with ESMTP id kADJXM18023426 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:33:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (nathanw@localhost) by harper.uchicago.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kADJWOYq028337 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:32:24 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: harper.uchicago.edu: nathanw owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:32:24 -0600 (CST) From: Nathan Whitehorn To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200611131339.30301.jhb@freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <200611131339.30301.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Uchicago-PMX-Id: 128.135.12.7: kADJXM18023426 [Mon Nov 13 13:33:23 2006] X-Uchicago-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7% Subject: Re: BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:34:24 -0000 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" >