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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:22:00 +0200
From:      Tommy Midttveit <tmidttve@powertech.no>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Crash before BTX
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.0.20000726192152.020bdd80@pop.powertech.no>

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Hi everybody. I have a major problem that I was hoping someone could help 
me with. My company has just bought three new servers based on Intel server 
main boards, w/SCSI on board etc. However, whenever I try to boot the 
installation CD or disk on either one of them, it crashes dumping the 
processors internal registers. I've seen multiple similar instances in the 
mailing list archive, but apparently no one has ever found a solution to 
this. This problem occurs even before the BTX loader has actually started. 
I've tried the 4.0-REL, 4.1-RC3 and 5.0-SNAP (latest). A tiny detail I 
noticed was the difference between 4.0-REL and 4.1-RC3 was that on 4.1-RC3 
the system said "BTX halted" instead of "System halted".

The registers printed look much like this:
   int=0xd   err=0   efl=0x30006   eip=0x6a6
   eax=0xce055   ebx=0x2900216   ecx=0x4   edx=0x80
   esi=0x323b   edi=0x3228   ebp=0x0   esp=0x3fa
   cs=0xca80   ds=0xca80   es=0x9c80   fs=0x9c80   gs=0x9c80   ss=9abe
   es:eip=26 0f 01 14 0f 20 c0 0c-01 0f 22 c0 eb 00 b8 10
   ss:esp=0c 32 21 02 90 02 95 09-c0 9b 82 00 b0 18 a4 e9
   BTX halted

The specs of the servers are as following:
   Intel G440GX+ mainboard
   Intel PRO 100+ Server NIC x2
   SRCU21 RAID Controller

The mainboard has a onboard Adaptec controller (AIC-7896N) which is 
supposedly diabled in the BIOS and 512MB ECC RAM. Also, onboard IDE w/40x 
CDROM at the secondary master.

Any information at all is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Mvh
   Tommy Midttveit <tmidttve@powertech.no>
   CyberHouse A/S 



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