From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 13 19:21:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64151065676 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:21:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grarpamp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528078FC1A for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so4101939ewy.43 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:21:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=HZAhVOzX1chUpP4Rfue3zf6zmuLvnQsVMxOkOpxHo1o=; b=NxywQ1dbj/qVqZO+UdNd4j9xWDNn8HNl28QR2TgEFOaaCTUTuvt/O2aJ8GMHdVbXIN UZoSK076uzZ22Dqhu62ux+DorZj8Ex2EnWXJeXnORs+sIBlQxyHa6KvB9Atp04WCGNxw gBsO7uLqkjkz1aVO11iizzwMOeY6cfuGFxig4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=UqY6uVF65ACLRtvB3W/g6zXYESvLFJzIm1QhMgivkqPc5tnMAYDvTzdB14CrZdjE5z mVJ0CCI8Xx6BhHss+WhQhH7ngImZRlerRZJvZGEHgw9RcVvcjS8xdIdt9KmyhtPwZpAi wo4nBfOFvuYjrStGv1JLz90kxNHag8K9TpS6E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.211.160.1 with SMTP id m1mr6174608ebo.50.1255461677320; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:21:17 -0400 Message-ID: From: grarpamp To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: re: 8.0 RC1 cd boot problem [btx/bios] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:21:18 -0000 Played with this some more. Both the add in cards have their own bios. Their bios can't be disabled. Their raid is not configured so they act as dumb paddles. All bios are up to date. Referring to the below map... - If I swap the position of the cards it won't boot from cd. - If I swap the position of the cards and yank the drives off the 20269, its bios doesn't load and the system boots from cd. - Of course removing the 20269 boots from cd. Booting off the hard drive works fine in all combinations. So I'm pretty sure this is a BTX loader problem involving bios scans? BTX stops right after detecting the ich4 devices... bios cd is cd0 bios drive a: is disk0 bios drive c: is disk1 _ This config boots fine from cd and is now in use: mobo: dell bluford onboard pata: pri m: udma66 s: - sec m: cdr s: dvdrw pci nearest cpu: 1: drive 2: - 3: drive 4: - 5: - 6: - 7: - 8: - pci next nearest cpu: pri m: udma100 s: - sec m: - s: - Prior message-id: d2e731a10909301617l1bad5dcbi7e5681e17fde1a04