Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:50:50 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk Message-ID: <200611131550.50648.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611132108430.7719@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611091928420.3164@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net> <Pine.GSO.4.62.0611131330110.27952@harper.uchicago.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611132108430.7719@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net>
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On Monday 13 November 2006 15:12, Michiel Boland wrote: > > 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... The real mode breakpoint handler may just ignore breakpoints, or the BIOS takes a different codepath when it runs in vm86 mode. -- John Baldwin
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