BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 13 November 2006 15:12, Michiel Boland wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> As far as I can see there are no other BIOSes on the Sun website other 
> than what the box is already running (ILOM 1.0.7 - I understand ILOM and 
> BIOS are linked for 4100s)
> 
> I am a bit puzzled why solaris and fedora do not have these problems on 
> this hardware. Oh well...

The real mode breakpoint handler may just ignore breakpoints, or the BIOS 
takes a different codepath when it runs in vm86 mode.

-- 
John Baldwin