BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Yeah, the X4100 has an mpt(4) controller. Mine is running the original 
BIOS release (6464), and runs FreeBSD fine. You can try fiddling with the 
BIOS revision by downloading replacements from Sun's website.
-Nathan

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, John Baldwin wrote:

> 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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