Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:36:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting - PXE/diskless Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102011235250.853-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <E14N95Z-0004Zw-00@cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Danny Braniss wrote: > im now being bitten by this one, but with a twist: > on a compaq deskpro workstation it's ok > on a dell-precision 420, it bombs. > both bioses are configured to boot via the network/pxe. > > im using the same disks for both boxes. > > i labeled the disks with: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0 bs=1k count=1 > disklabel -Brw da0 auto This is a bug in the adaptec BIOS. Don't do this for boot disks. Use fdisk/real slices instead. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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