Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:13:03 GMT From: McAjvar <miha.radej@siix.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/71000: BTX halted when booting from CD on a machine with 2 RAID controllers Message-ID: <200408261813.i7QID3CJ025452@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200408261820.i7QIKR72055256@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 71000
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: BTX halted when booting from CD on a machine with 2 RAID controllers
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 26 18:20:27 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: McAjvar
>Release: 5.1 release, 5.2.1 release, 5.3 beta
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
When trying to boot (tested using 5.3 beta, 5.1 release and 5.2.1 release as well as with FreeSBIE 1.0) from the CD, I get a "BTX halted" error.
It's a SuperMicro server with a P4 processor (2.8GHz) and 2 (two) 3ware RAID controllers. Escalade 9500S-8 and Escalade 8006-2LP. When _any_ of these two is taken out, CD boot works normally, the problem only arises when both are present in the server.
When booting from the hard drive (either after the system is installed or booting a previous installation) or from floppies it works normally.
This is the transcript of the message (I had to type this so I hope there are no typos):
Start:
*****************************************************
Boot from CD : CD Loader 1.01
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0
int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030246 eip=0000ffff
eax=00000800 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000080
esi=00009701 edi=00001800 ebp=0008914b esp=000003ee
cs=ffff ds=45e6 es=0000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9d3b
cs:eip=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ss:esp=59 91 00 18 7a 01 00 c9-82 02 00 00 00 00 3a a4
00 f0 82 02 80 00 80 00-4a 91 00 00 46 02 80 00
BTX halted
*****************************************************
End
>How-To-Repeat:
Boot from a FreeBSD CD (so far tested with up to 5.3 beta).
RAID controllers being used, both 3ware: Escalade 9500S-8 and Escalade 8006-2LP.
>Fix:
Boot from floppies or an existing hard drive installation. Or take out one of the RAID controllers (re-insert it after the system is installed).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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