Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:44:28 -0500 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: "Paul Saab" <paul@mu.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware Message-ID: <001b01c04024$68c4c460$0100a8c0@veldy.net> References: <E13p9x5-0002oM-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il> <20001027070229.A3341@elvis.mu.org>
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I am also seeing BTX failures, but only from manual commands. The lsdev command will cause BTX to fail (and halt) when it scans my CDROM/DVD. I am using 4.1.1-RELEASE. I have a ABIT KA7-100 board (which uses the VIA686A chipset for IDE access). Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Saab" <paul@mu.org> To: "Danny Braniss" <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; <hackers@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 9:02 AM Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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