From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 18:57:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E27106566C for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:57:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from underligast@gmail.com) Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285C28FC17 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:57:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from underligast@gmail.com) Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id e34so3294130qbe.35 for ; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:57:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=F90nioHqqJBXBmfFHUU21QCrCimQ3UNlrKjqQi8lDJo=; b=QP3o1XGPWdEMNK4qe3IrEIzbJonZrc9ufR2S6CzcqGjgkwkpO+PuGkEgNqN9nvlZzO GsEySPWD6AjaWA1/MN0zDjSI6jPSJytuvY2CqI770iE2+J5FkVYDW6jq4k3tW7q72keD hwjJILSLJL/Dg5XCYb/2ihwv1kVXjoWS7r7ck= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=THKM+NI6Z0BkGXcC7cRiumlHPFwA/9PDL1q33C9VpCVIjOkDGpZSCqFCofP/gLG9v9 JUnvhoGIUv1T68vci766lH4kmdZ0uZEO4mlyhK463eLYyIE0C914VCcxJfa/90VhcNDD oaxokma48KFjwZzIzYR82G2Y2sKKLxEwvGVqM= Received: by 10.142.12.14 with SMTP id 14mr5579299wfl.182.1217961757502; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.11.16 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3424e810808051142x19c477c7r86aed275c47dba12@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:42:37 +0200 From: underligast To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:57:33 -0000 I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on my "new" server, an IBM eServer x225 (8647-5CG) The server/drives runs fine under windows 2003 and ubuntu server but the FreeBSD installation just halts. So far i've tried: CD: disk1 from 6.2, 7.0, CD: bootonly from 7.0 Floppys: 7.0 They all end the same, cds with an infinite loop of numbers, floppys with BTX Halted and a lot of numbers. int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00010006 eip=000219b2 eax=000219ac ebx=00000000 ecx=c0000080 edx=000587d8 esi=0003e007 edi=00000000 ebp=0008fcbc esp=00099c88 cs=0008 ds=0010 es=0010 fs=0010 gs=0010 ss=0010 cs:eip=0f 32 0d 00 01 00 00 0f-30 0f 20 e0 83 c8 30 0f 22 e0 b8 00 c0 03 00 0f-22 d8 0f 20 c0 0d 00 00 ss:esp=90 95 00 00 00 80 fc 00-00 90 fc 00 07 e0 03 00 00 00 00 00 07 d0 03 00-00 00 00 00 cc 87 05 00 BTX halted The only difference is when i boot from 7.0-STABLE-200804-i386-bootonly.iso, then i see BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive A: is disk0 Then it stops. If i remove both the harddrives i can boot into the freebsd installer, but as there are no drives, there is nowhere to install. Atleast when i started with the floppys it detected drive1 and 2 before BTX halted.. I dont know what to do anymore, there is just no way to get freebsd to install on this thing. Is it the LSI controller, it should still be initiated when there are no drives in it, and the installation starts fine then. Is it the Motherboard, the bios, the cpu, the ram? what? The disks, having just one in doesn't work, switching positions doesn't work? Does anyone have any idea on how i can proceed once i'm in the installation, can i mount the drives and install somehow? The hardware is: 1x Xeon 2.8GHz(512KB), 2x 2048MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (ecc), 2x 74GB 10K rpm U320 HDD, Ultra320 SCSI, 48x CD-ROM, Broadcom NetXtreme 10/100/1000 Integrated Ethernet, ATI Rage XL