Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:58:24 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Jonas Lund <whizzter@gmail.com> Cc: underligast <underligast@gmail.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop - Need help booting recompiled kernel so i can install Message-ID: <20080808035824.GB73757@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <436c7eda0808071444g889a3f2q4a81d75c0deee407@mail.gmail.com> References: <3424e810808071112m60682d82w341a19149460f0a2@mail.gmail.com> <436c7eda0808071444g889a3f2q4a81d75c0deee407@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:44:58PM +0200, Jonas Lund wrote: > BTX is the "new" bootloader that works in 32bit (it's actually been in > for a few releases now). So the kernel has nothing to do with this. > > I originally subscribed to this list for an almost identical problem. > With my rocketraid somethingsomething PCI-SATA2 card with disks > connected crashes the BTX loader. Connecting the disks to the internal > via epia motherboard solved the problem (I'm using gmirror raid now as > apperantly the rocketraid card was just some software thing anyhow). > > I have a feeling that it might be some combinations of BTX, BIOS and > RAID firmware that causes these crashes. FreeBSD being a marginal OS > the BTX code just has a chance of triggering odd corner case being a > 32bit loader. > > I haven't kept up with linux but last i checked they use a 16bit > bootloader unless the distro has migrated to grub. (Remembering > correctly GRUB also crashed on my setup like btx). > Never tried booting windows on my setup. Please be aware of the following CVS commit, which was 4 months ago (look at the top 3 commits shown, for RELENG_[467] branches): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/Makefile -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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