From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 27 1:13: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C0837B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id e9R8Cpd02393; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:12:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200010270812.e9R8Cpd02393@earth.backplane.com> To: Paul Saab Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware References: <200010270746.e9R7k5k00392@earth.backplane.com> <20001027005935.A96133@elvis.mu.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message