Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:02:29 -0700 From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware Message-ID: <20001027070229.A3341@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <E13p9x5-0002oM-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>; from danny@cs.huji.ac.il on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 03:53:47PM %2B0200 References: <E13p9x5-0002oM-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Danny Braniss (danny@cs.huji.ac.il) wrote: > In message <200010270746.e9R7k5k00392@earth.backplane.com>you write: > } 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: > } > > i've seen the same, i just reboot it, and it works. sometimes, while > the kernel is doing it's init stuff it panics. i haven't seen it fail > more than once in a row, so i was thinking maybe some network error > that was not dealt properly. btw, the boxes are DELL. He was not seeing a PXE bug, it was a loader issue with the BIOS. The PXE bug you are seeing is with anything build 078 or earlier. Intel has a bug in their rom which they fixed back in March of this year. -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20001027070229.A3341>