IBM x225 Boot Failure with all recent 5.x releases

[Doug White]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 jcaldwell at ymcastlouis.org wrote:

> Has there been any change in the status of the x225 bug in 5.3? I've got a
> 5.3-release CD, and it still shows the same problem. Right now, my plans
> to deploy FreeBSD are stuck, until this bug gets resolved.
>
> To refresh memory (and I'm filling in a bug report as soon as I'm done
> here) - on any IBM x225 server, 5.3 (or 5.2.1) refuses to boot - it starts
> to load the bootloader, gets as far as 'Looking up /BOOT/LOADER - Found',
> and then I get continous loops of 'BTX Halted' plus register dumps. Never
> gets any further.

Have you posted the register dump? It'd be nice to have that so it can be
decoded; it includes the opcodes before and after the panic, and that may
help understand what evilness your BIOS is trying to propagate.

In the interim, try disabling some BIOS features, particularly Legacy USB
if its offered, and the Integrated Mirroring support if you have it
enabled.

For the record a x225 is a dual-proc Xeon machine.

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