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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


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