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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.
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