Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:35:12 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, (Paul Saab) <paul@mu.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting - PXE/diskless Message-ID: <XFMail.010129133512.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <E14N95Z-0004Zw-00@cs.huji.ac.il>
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On 29-Jan-01 Danny Braniss wrote: > im now being bitten by this one, but with a twist: > on a compaq deskpro workstation it's ok > on a dell-precision 420, it bombs. > both bioses are configured to boot via the network/pxe. > > im using the same disks for both boxes. > > i labeled the disks with: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0 bs=1k count=1 > disklabel -Brw da0 auto > > i then went ahead an played with vinum, all went fine on the Compaq, > i then wanted to do some comparisons, so i hooked up the disks to the Dell > and now BTX bombs. > > is there a way, that when booting from the net, btx ignores the mbr/fdisk > info? BTX doesn't read your MBR, it sounds like the BIOS in the machine is crapping itself out on the disks in question. If you are using dangerously dedicated mode on these disks, don't. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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