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From: Michiel Boland <michiel@boland.org>
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Subject: Re: BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk
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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.

As far as I can see there are no other BIOSes on the Sun website other 
than what the box is already running (ILOM 1.0.7 - I understand ILOM and 
BIOS are linked for 4100s)

I am a bit puzzled why solaris and fedora do not have these problems on 
this hardware. Oh well...

Cheers
Michiel