Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:12:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware Message-ID: <200010270812.e9R8Cpd02393@earth.backplane.com> References: <200010270746.e9R7k5k00392@earth.backplane.com> <20001027005935.A96133@elvis.mu.org>
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:I'm just curious. How many disks are in this box? We saw something
:similar here at work and it turned out that there were multiple disklabels
:on the other disks and for somereason it was confusing the loader.
:We dd'd the bad sections off and everything worked.
:
:paul
I've got one IDE CDRom and two SCSI disks.
I did play with the labels on those machines. I will try blowing
them away. If I put a 'printf("XXX\n");' in front of every single
v86int() call in libi386/biosdisk.c it doesn't crash on me.
... ( time passes ) ...
ok... I cleared the disk labels using dd. Hoa! That seems to have
fixed it allright!
Very weird. I was sure I zero'd the labels before I populated the disk,
but maybe not.
Thanks much! I was tearing my hair out on this one...
-Matt
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