Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:08:13 -0800 From: clark shishido <clark@ruminary.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted message on Tyan Thunder motherboard ... Message-ID: <20030131000813.GA66214@ruminary.org> In-Reply-To: <20030130193501.A40659@hub.org> References: <20030130193501.A40659@hub.org>
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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
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