From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 1:18:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079E337B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:18:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tele-kom.ru (tele-kom.ru [81.22.2.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 556F543F5B for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:18:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doublef@tele-kom.ru) Received: (qmail 26678 invoked by uid 0); 17 Jan 2003 09:18:13 -0000 Date: 17 Jan 2003 09:18:13 -0000 Message-ID: <20030117091813.26677.qmail@mail.tele-kom.ru> Received: from (HELO ) (81.22.3.159) by tele-kom.ru with ESMTP id 26673-1042795093-10 for FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org; Fri Jan 17 09:18:13 2003 0000 From: DoubleF To: "FreeBSD-questions" Subject: Re: Make World Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Recently, Doron Shmaryahu wrote: > This time there were no errors but when the > machine rebooted it just says btx halted and a whole lot of other stuff. It > sits there and does not boot. If it's not the kernel, then let me give it a try. I can think of one (1) way of BTX being loaded but panicking. If BTX is not entirely in the area accessible by BIOS (~8G on my old one), and the BIOS lies to the boot0 loader that it has loaded it (while it hasn't) then BTX will be half-loaded and will panic as soon as it reaches the not loaded code. It is `perfectly' possible to have a kernel be loadable but not BTX (i have such a monster). I have obsereved the same situation when trying to get BTX loaded using packet interface to the disk. You could try using boot0cfg(8) with "-o nopacket". Mind, >> Use of the `packet' option may cause `boot0' to fail, >> depending on the nature of BIOS support. (boot0cfg(8)) By the way, your old 4.5 system could be `immune' to this as f.e. my 4.4-R doesn't absolutely require BTX to run properly. And yes, when you interrupt your boot, BTX is skipped. Could it be just a broken BTX binary? Good luck, DoubleF To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message