From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 30 16: 8:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA9B37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:08:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ruminary.org (chiku.ruminary.org [216.218.185.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D3A43F3F for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:08:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clark@ruminary.org) Received: by ruminary.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D1C7C22E1A; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:08:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:08:13 -0800 From: clark shishido To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted message on Tyan Thunder motherboard ... Message-ID: <20030131000813.GA66214@ruminary.org> References: <20030130193501.A40659@hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030130193501.A40659@hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:38:56PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Yesterday, trying to resolve a problem, we upgraded the BIOs to 1.07, > after which we started to get the BTX halted message above ... searching > the web, I've not found much in the way of solution, but the one I did see > talked about disabling teh BIOS DMA, in relation to a Compaq server, or > downgrading teh BIOs ... since we can't find a BIOS DMA setting in the > Tyan BIOS, we went with downgrading back to 1.06 ... > > ... but we're still getting it ... > > I'm running 4.7-STABLE on this server, with one of teh Adaptec ZCR > controllers ... is there something else we should try? > There's a similar problem with Intel L440GX+ boards. I've found that disabling the BIOS over COM1 feature allows me to boot without errors. My guess is that the board is hanging onto the serial port (console) when the boot loader tries to write to it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/30125 but I don't remember Tyans having console redirection. HTH. --clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message