Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:39:29 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk Message-ID: <200611131339.30301.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611091928420.3164@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611091928420.3164@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net>
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On Thursday 09 November 2006 13:34, Michiel Boland wrote: > Hi. I was trying to install FreeBSD on a Sun X4100. I managed to > pxeboot it and install 6.2-BETA3 onto one of the hard drives. > > So far, no problems. > But when it finally gets to boot from disk it halts with > > - > int=0000000d err=0000001a efl=00030287 eip=0000290f > eax=1400000a ebx=00000b3c ecx=00000000 edx=0000cf00 > esi=00000d1c edi=00000001 ebp=00000206 esp=00000200 > cs=cf00 ds=9a00 es=9a00 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9a00 > cs:eip=cc 68 32 06 ff 34 e8 db-fc 83 c4 04 89 46 fe 5f > 5e c9 c3 55 8b ec 1e 33-c0 8e d8 a0 75 04 3c 00 > ss:esp=1c 0d 02 00 00 00 34 02-32 46 1c 0d 00 00 00 14 > 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-1c 0d 02 00 00 00 00 00 > BTX halted They have a debug breakpoint (int3 instruction) in their BIOS code. See if you can beat the manufacturer into submission for releasing debug BIOS code. Is this an mpt(4) card by chance? -- John Baldwin
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