From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 27 1:25:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E7837B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:25:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7D3D72B206; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:25:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:25:22 -0700 From: Paul Saab To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware Message-ID: <20001027012522.A96576@elvis.mu.org> References: <200010270812.e9R8Cpd02393@earth.backplane.com> <200010270826.e9R8QWF01184@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200010270826.e9R8QWF01184@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:26:32AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith (msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) wrote: > > > > :I'm just curious. How many disks are in this box? We saw something > > :similar here at work and it turned out that there were multiple disklabels > > :on the other disks and for somereason it was confusing the loader. > > :We dd'd the bad sections off and everything worked. > > Are you sure it's confusing the loader? Matt's fault address puts it in > the BIOS at 0xc800, which is probably the SCSI adapter's BIOS...> I wasn't 100% involved with the problem. Peter looked into and notice the disks had bogus labels (sometimes up to 3 labels on 1 disk) and when he removed them, the machines were happy again. We never looked into further because we just didn't have the time. -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message