Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:01:38 +0100 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: paul@mu.org, msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinuxhardware Message-ID: <65919.972885698@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:07:02 -0800 (PST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010291800190.54838-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> I know I'm getting into this late but I can reliably reproduce this > problem. I ran into it about 3 months ago when using a custom PXE-based > installer for our SCSI boxes. I even annoyed -hackes and got John Baldwin > to help me decode the register dumps. The IP does end up in the SCSI BIOS > extension somewhere, which is really scary. ... > The Adaptec BIOS is doing something really fugly when it doesn't find > proper partition tables on the disks. > > It does it if ANY of the disks are done 'dangerously dedicated.' This also happens on IBM Netfinity 5600 servers (Adaptec 7890/91 on motherboard). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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