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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:48:52 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Tommy Midttveit <tmidttve@powertech.no>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Crash before BTX
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261240340.62562-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000726192152.020bdd80@pop.powertech.no>

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Tommy Midttveit wrote:

> 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 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.

I recently tried to boot 4.0-R from CD on a Compaq Proliant ML530
which is very similar and had identical results.  Booting from the
floppies and installing from CD works just fine, though.  I wonder if
the boot problems have anything to do with the fact that there is no
primary IDE controller at all, and the CDROM is the master of the
secondary channel?


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
   FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
   For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org )




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