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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:25:22 -0700
From:      Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware
Message-ID:  <20001027012522.A96576@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200010270826.e9R8QWF01184@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:26:32AM -0700
References:  <200010270812.e9R8Cpd02393@earth.backplane.com> <200010270826.e9R8QWF01184@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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Mike Smith (msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) wrote:
> > 
> > :I'm just curious.  How many disks are in this box?  We saw something
> > :similar here at work and it turned out that there were multiple disklabels
> > :on the other disks and for somereason it was confusing the loader.
> > :We dd'd the bad sections off and everything worked.
> 
> Are you sure it's confusing the loader?  Matt's fault address puts it in 
> the BIOS at 0xc800, which is probably the SCSI adapter's BIOS...> 

I wasn't 100% involved with the problem.  Peter looked into and notice
the disks had bogus labels (sometimes up to 3 labels on 1 disk) and when
he removed them, the machines were happy again.  We never looked into
further because we just didn't have the time.

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Paul Saab
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