From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 16 21:54:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from unixthugs.com (adsl-63-195-86-171.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.86.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EF4C37B423 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 21:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryno@unixthugs.com) Received: (qmail 89118 invoked by uid 1000); 17 May 2001 04:56:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 May 2001 04:56:24 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 21:56:24 -0700 (PDT) From: _R_j_M_ To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: btx halted errors In-Reply-To: <200105162014.f4GKESB10817@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i actually have an onboard symbios scsi controller that i am using to boot from, and i've also an AMR RAID card booting off of 3 73 gig drives as a test. i do only get this error every once in a while which is the part that makes me scared since i'm putting it in colocation soon ryan On Wed, 16 May 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > I'd guess you have an Intel RAID controller; you can't use this with > FreeBSD due to bugs in the RAID controller BIOS. I've tried talking to > Intel about this, but they haven't been very responsive, and so there's > not much you can do about it, short of throwing it out and getting a > less-buggy controller (I would recommend Adaptec, AMI or Mylex). > > > hello, > > > > when i boot up i get this error right after it tries to load the > > /boot/defaults/loader.conf file it halts with this error message > > > > BTX halted > > > > int 5 err 0 efl 00010206 eip 00000012 > > eax 00000039 ebx 00023920 ecx 00023934 edx 00000000 > > esi 00000000 edi 0000000c ebp 000943c8 esp 000943cc > > cs 002b ds 0033 es 0033 fs 0033 gs 0033 ss 0033 > > cs:eip 62 00 00 00 e8 05 04 00 00 90 31 c0 cd 30 58 01 > > ss:esp 1c 8a 01 00 00 00 00 00 6c 44 09 00 1a 00 00 00 > > > > > > and then i have to reset the system. sometimes it will come up on the next > > boot, but most of the time it will give me this error 3 or 4 times before > > it will boot the kernel cleanly. i have not changed any thing in my > > /boot/loader.conf or any other files from /boot. > > > > this machine is a intel dual proc machine. I'm booting the machine from a > > 9 gig cheetah drive, and i have a > > megaraid card in it w/ 3 73 gig cheetahs RAID-5 for storage. i've > > installed from the ftp site and from the iso image. i am currently running > > 4.1.1-RELEASE. any ideas as to what my problem my be would great, i'm > > willing to try anything to get this box up while avoiding linux. > > > > > > ryan moser > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message