From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 12:30:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BE537BF24 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA46158; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007261930.MAA46158@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Crash before BTX In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000726192152.020bdd80@pop.powertech.no> from Tommy Midttveit at "Jul 26, 2000 07:22:00 pm" To: Tommy Midttveit Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tommy Midttveit wrote: > Hi everybody. I have a major problem that I was hoping someone could help > me with. My company has just bought three new servers based on Intel server > main boards, w/SCSI on board etc. However, whenever I try to boot the > installation CD or disk on either one of them, it crashes dumping the > processors internal registers. I've seen multiple similar instances in the > mailing list archive, but apparently no one has ever found a solution to > this. This problem occurs even before the BTX loader has actually started. > I've tried the 4.0-REL, 4.1-RC3 and 5.0-SNAP (latest). A tiny detail I > noticed was the difference between 4.0-REL and 4.1-RC3 was that on 4.1-RC3 > the system said "BTX halted" instead of "System halted". > > The registers printed look much like this: > int=0xd err=0 efl=0x30006 eip=0x6a6 > eax=0xce055 ebx=0x2900216 ecx=0x4 edx=0x80 > esi=0x323b edi=0x3228 ebp=0x0 esp=0x3fa > cs=0xca80 ds=0xca80 es=0x9c80 fs=0x9c80 gs=0x9c80 ss=9abe > es:eip=26 0f 01 14 0f 20 c0 0c-01 0f 22 c0 eb 00 b8 10 > ss:esp=0c 32 21 02 90 02 95 09-c0 9b 82 00 b0 18 a4 e9 > BTX halted > > The specs of the servers are as following: > Intel G440GX+ mainboard > Intel PRO 100+ Server NIC x2 > SRCU21 RAID Controller Well, it is dying in your RAID adapter's BIOS, since cs=0xca80. I'll have to sit down and figure out what instruction it is dying on though. I'll try to get to this later on today. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message