Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:44:29 +0200 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware Message-ID: <20001027114429.B69762@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <200010270746.e9R7k5k00392@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:46:05AM -0700 References: <200010270746.e9R7k5k00392@earth.backplane.com>
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:46:05AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > This is really weird. I have two valinux rackmount boxes, duel cpu's. > > I was testing the PXE stuff and booting one of the boxes regularly. > All of a sudden every time I reboot I get: > > ... > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > > int=00000000 err=00000000 efl=00030246 eip=00001d29 > eax=00000000 ebs=00000390 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > esi=00008db7 edi=00001c09 ebp=00000398 esp=0000038c > cs=c800 ds=0040 es=8db7 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=8db7 > cs:eip= f7 f1 33 d2 8a 4e f6 f7-f1 3d ff 03 76 03 b8 ff > ss:esp= 00 00 3f 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 02 00 22 0a 00 c8 > BTX halted > > *All* the time. That is, everything was working fine, then nothing was > working. Powering down doesn't help... now every boot comes up with the > above error. I didn't change the boot image ... in fact, when I stuck > the 4.1 CD in the now non-working machine, *IT's* bootloader also > crashed every time too (and it worked previously). > > I messed around trying to track down where the loader was dying. I > found it was dying in v86int(), called from bd_int13probe() in > libi386/biosdisk.c. It seems to be dying in the BIOS itself. It looks pretty similar to famous BIOS virus protection thingy. Can this be the case? Cheers, %Anton. -- <img align="lawful"> and <img align="chaotic"> would be a nice addition to HTML specification. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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