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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:39:29 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk
Message-ID:  <200611131339.30301.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611091928420.3164@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611091928420.3164@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net>

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On Thursday 09 November 2006 13:34, Michiel Boland wrote:
> Hi. I was trying to install FreeBSD on a Sun X4100. I managed to 
> pxeboot it and install 6.2-BETA3 onto one of the hard drives.
> 
> So far, no problems.
> But when it finally gets to boot from disk it halts with
> 
> -
> int=0000000d  err=0000001a  efl=00030287  eip=0000290f
> eax=1400000a  ebx=00000b3c  ecx=00000000  edx=0000cf00
> esi=00000d1c  edi=00000001  ebp=00000206  esp=00000200
> cs=cf00  ds=9a00  es=9a00    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=9a00
> cs:eip=cc 68 32 06 ff 34 e8 db-fc 83 c4 04 89 46 fe 5f
>         5e c9 c3 55 8b ec 1e 33-c0 8e d8 a0 75 04 3c 00
> ss:esp=1c 0d 02 00 00 00 34 02-32 46 1c 0d 00 00 00 14
>         00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-1c 0d 02 00 00 00 00 00
> BTX halted

They have a debug breakpoint (int3 instruction) in their BIOS code.  See if 
you can beat the manufacturer into submission for releasing debug BIOS code.  
Is this an mpt(4) card by chance?

-- 
John Baldwin



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