Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:03:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> Cc: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware Message-ID: <200010271803.e9RI3wK05949@earth.backplane.com> References: <E13p9x5-0002oM-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il> <20001027070229.A3341@elvis.mu.org>
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:Danny Braniss (danny@cs.huji.ac.il) wrote:
:> In message <200010270746.e9R7k5k00392@earth.backplane.com>you write:
:> } This is really weird. I have two valinux rackmount boxes, duel cpu's.
:> }
:> } I was testing the PXE stuff and booting one of the boxes regularly.
:> } All of a sudden every time I reboot I get:
:> }
:>
:> i've seen the same, i just reboot it, and it works. sometimes, while
:> the kernel is doing it's init stuff it panics. i haven't seen it fail
:> more than once in a row, so i was thinking maybe some network error
:> that was not dealt properly. btw, the boxes are DELL.
:
:He was not seeing a PXE bug, it was a loader issue with the BIOS.
:The PXE bug you are seeing is with anything build 078 or earlier.
:Intel has a bug in their rom which they fixed back in March of this year.
:
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:Paul Saab
:Technical Yahoo
Right. It isn't PXE. PXE works fine.
I'm starting to figure out what is going on. If I create a
'dangerously dedicated' parittion, the BIOS drops dead when the
loader tries to scan it.
If I create a normal fdisk partition, the BIOS works, but disklabel
will not let me label the fdisk partition and I have no clue as to why
not!
fdisk -I da0 (init a real freebsd-dedicated DOS partition)
reboot (reboot just to be sure)
(BIOS does NOT crash with a real dos partition
table)
fdisk da0 (see output below)
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 143363997 (70001 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 731/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
10:/root#
disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto (label it)
10:/root# disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto
Oct 27 11:00:35 10 /kernel: da0: cannot find label (no disk label)
Oct 27 11:00:35 10 /kernel: da0s1: cannot find label (no disk label)
Oct 27 11:00:35 10 /kernel: da0: cannot find label (no disk label)
Oct 27 11:00:35 10 /kernel: da0s1: cannot find label (no disk label)
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
disklabel: auto: unknown disk type
I don't understand why it won't let me label the fdisk partition. If
only I could label the real partition 'fdisk -I' created, I think the
system will work.
The question is, why is disklabel failing above? It shouldn't be
failing..it should let me label da0s1.
-Matt
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