amd64/94989: BTX Halts on Sun Fire X2100 w/6.1-BETA4 (amd64) and 5.4-RELEASE (x86)

[Ken Gunderson]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:01:39 GMT
Chris Jones <cdjones at novusordo.net> wrote:

> 
> >Number:         94989
> >Category:       amd64
> >Synopsis:       BTX Halts on Sun Fire X2100 w/6.1-BETA4 (amd64) and 5.4-RELEASE (x86)
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:        
> >Keywords:       
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 27 01:10:11 GMT 2006
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Chris Jones
> >Release:        6.1-BETA4
> >Organization:
> Novus Ordo Systems
> >Environment:
> Sun Fire X2100 (AMD Opteron 146, 1 GB ECC RAM, 2x250 GB SATA HDDs, USB CD drive).  Unable to run uname as system won't boot.
> >Description:
> I'm trying to boot with a 6.1-BETA4 (amd64) CD and getting a BTX halted error, as follows:
> 
> > BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.01
> > Consoles: internal video/keyboard
> >  
> > int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00030206  eip=000027f5
> > eax=00008001  ebx=00000000  ecx=a3800001  edx=000009ff
> > esi=00000b18  edi=00000000  ebp=00000000  esp=000003da
> > cs=f000  ds=46ca  es=46ac    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=97ba
> > cs:eip=2e 0f 01 16 c8 2a 0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 b8 30
> >        00 8e c0 0f 20 c0 24 fe-0f 22 c0 eb 00 66 58 c3
> > ss:esp=01 80 00 00 de 26 00 00-00 00 18 0b 00 00 00 00
> >        00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00-00 00 9f 00 00 00 01 00
> > BTX halted
> 
> Trying with a 5.4-RELEASE (x86) CD, I also get a BTX halted error:
> 
> > BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.01
> > Console: internal video/keyboard
> > 
> > int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00030206  eip=000027f5
> > eax=00008001  ebx=00000000  ecx=a3800001  edx=0000009f
> > esi=00000b18  edi=00000000  ebp=00000000  esp=000003d2
> > cs=f000  ds=3eca  es=3eac    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=97be
> > cs:eip=2e 0f 01 16 c8 2a 0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 8b 30
> >        00 8e c0 0f 20 c0 24 fe-0f 22 c0 eb 00 66 58 c3
> > ss:esp=01 80 00 00 de 26 00 00-00 00 18 0b 00 00 00 00
> >        00 00 f8 03 00 00 00 00-00 00 9f 00 00 00 01 00
> > BTX halted
> 
> I've tried disabling everything I could in the BIOS having to do with IDE and DMA (having seen hints via Google that this was related to BTX halt problems), to no avail.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Booting system with 6.1-BETA4 (amd64) or 5.4-RELEASE (x86) CDs reliably reproduces this problem.  Have not tried with other versions or OSes (have OpenBSD & Scientific Linux easily available and can try if that'd be helpful).

This uses the Tyan 2865 mainboard.  I have a couple machines that use
this board.  The BIOS that ships is bogus- machines wouldn't boot
(don't remember the details of why since it's been a while now).
Updating the BIOS fixes it. Just built a couple of these last week and
noted the most recent BIOS is dated March 2006. You might want to
double check Sun's site and see if they've released updates.


-- 
Best regards,

Ken Gunderson

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