From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 16:56:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850BC16A401; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:56:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from home.quip.cz (grimm.quip.cz [213.220.192.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F7913C448; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:56:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (qwork.quip.test [192.168.1.2]) by home.quip.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3CDE62D8; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:35:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45B39637.9060706@quip.cz> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:35:03 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: cz, cs, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Losher References: <45B2AAF8.9010509@isc.org> In-Reply-To: <45B2AAF8.9010509@isc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, jhb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:56:34 -0000 Peter Losher wrote: > I have a Matushita based USB CD/DVD-ROM drive that I have been using to > install FreeBSD with for the better part of the last year. I just took > delivery yesterday of both a HP Proliant 1450 G3 and a generic 1U server > based on a Tyan Tomcat i845GV S3098 MB. > > In both cases, once the USB CD-ROM started loading either 6.1 or 6.2, I > get a BTX halt: > > -=- > from CD : CD Loader 1.2 > > Building the boot loader arguments > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > > int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030206 eip=000037d0 > eax=00008001 ebx=00000000 ecx=a3900001 edx=0000009f > esi=00000b32 edi=00000000 ebp=00000000 esp=000003d2 > cs=f000 ds=3eca es=3eac fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=97fc > cs:eip=2e 0f 01 16 f8 38 0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 b8 30 > 00 8e c0 0f 20 c0 24 fe-0f 22 c0 eb 00 66 58 c3 > ss:esp=01 80 00 00 db 36 00 00-00 00 32 0b 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 f8 03 00 00 00 00-00 00 9f 00 00 00 01 00 > BTX halted > -=- > > Opening up the cases and plugging in a EIDE CD-ROM, the installer CD's > work just fine. So it looks like perhaps there is some new BIOS > instruction set that's causing the BTX loader some pain with a USB device. > > Anyone encounter similar issues recently? > > Best Wishes - Peter Hi, this is well known problem discussed a few months ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-November/030897.html sterted at semptember http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-qa/2006-September/000783.html Partial fix could be to use GRUB (it helps me on Sun, but does not help on HP servers) Miroslav Lachman