From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 07:32:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17EB837B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93B343FE3 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:32:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from landgren.net (81-80-147-206.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88AFFA9B1 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:32:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3EF70EC6.4050107@landgren.net> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:29:26 +0200 From: David Landgren Organization: A thousand golden eyes are watching User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3EE70E24.8070204@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: <3EE70E24.8070204@landgren.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: BTX halted when installing on a HP Proliant DL360 G3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:32:11 -0000 David Landgren wrote: Replying to myself, for the sake of the archives. > List, > > I just received a new batch of servers to deploy. Among the lot I have 3 > HP Proliant DL360 G3 servers that refuse to run the installation CD. I > think this is because HP have switched to Ultra 320 drives and I don't > think FreeBSD has caught up with that. I have two 18Gb 15000rpm drives > mounted in RAID-1. > > The BIOS says "Proliant System BIOS - P31 (03/01/2003)". > > I've tried various BIOS options, but the boot always goes like this: > > Miniboot 4.1 > Attempting Boot From CD-ROM > CD Loader 1.01 > > Building the boot loader arguments > Lookup up /BOOT/LOADER... Found > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader > > BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS CD is cd0 > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > > inf=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030006 > ... > BTX halted > > I.e.: it looks like it's when it hunts for hard disks. > > I trawled the archives and learnt that people had similar problems on > Compaq hardware, although with Adaptec controllers. The solution there > was to create a DOS partition on the disk beforehand. I tried this, with > no success. > > I've tried booting from 4.8-RELEASE, 5.1-RELEASE and the 5.1 miniloader, > all with similar results. I also tried booting of an OpenBSD 3.3 CD. It > gets a bit further, but when it comes to choosing I for Install, it > reports that there are no hard disks available. > > It seems like FreeBSD simply hasn't caught up yet. I had a look at the > Testdrive machines offered by HP, but they're still running 4.8 on a > DL360 G2. > > If anyone has some idea as to how to proceed, I'd be really grateful. > The only alternative would be to try and install Linux. But I've been > unhappy with Linux performance under load in the past (and it's these > servers I'm replacing) so it would be sad to continue in that vein. > > Thanks for the clues, Daisuke Koike got me onto the right track by pointing me to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=61247+63991+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-stable/20030525.freebsd-stable The thread there talks about disabling a BIOS setting named "Virtual boot device". Unfortunately my BIOS doesn't have that option. I had another look, and found a different option named "Virtual install disk" and this one was enabled. I set it to disabled, rebooted, and FreeBSD booted successfully from the CD-ROM. Hope this helps someone in the future. Thanks again Daisuke-san. David