From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 21: 9:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (gatekeeper.orem.verio.net [192.41.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BDB37B491; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10F23BF118; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:09:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1259In83274; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:09:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:33:47 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net To: Doug White Cc: Danny Braniss , John Baldwin , Terry Lambert , Paul Saab , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting - PXE/diskless In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Doug White wrote: > This is a bug in the adaptec BIOS. Don't do this for boot disks. Use > fdisk/real slices instead. Or possibly, dont do this for any disk in the system. Some bioses choke even on non-boot disks with DD partitioning... Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message