BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 13 18:52:08 UTC 2006
On Thursday 09 November 2006 13:34, Michiel Boland wrote:
> Hi. I was trying to install FreeBSD on a Sun X4100. I managed to
> pxeboot it and install 6.2-BETA3 onto one of the hard drives.
>
> So far, no problems.
> But when it finally gets to boot from disk it halts with
>
> -
> int=0000000d err=0000001a efl=00030287 eip=0000290f
> eax=1400000a ebx=00000b3c ecx=00000000 edx=0000cf00
> esi=00000d1c edi=00000001 ebp=00000206 esp=00000200
> cs=cf00 ds=9a00 es=9a00 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9a00
> cs:eip=cc 68 32 06 ff 34 e8 db-fc 83 c4 04 89 46 fe 5f
> 5e c9 c3 55 8b ec 1e 33-c0 8e d8 a0 75 04 3c 00
> ss:esp=1c 0d 02 00 00 00 34 02-32 46 1c 0d 00 00 00 14
> 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-1c 0d 02 00 00 00 00 00
> BTX halted
They have a debug breakpoint (int3 instruction) in their BIOS code. See if
you can beat the manufacturer into submission for releasing debug BIOS code.
Is this an mpt(4) card by chance?
--
John Baldwin
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