Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinuxhardware

[sthaug]

> I know I'm getting into this late but I can reliably reproduce this
> problem. I ran into it about 3 months ago when using a custom PXE-based
> installer for our SCSI boxes.  I even annoyed -hackes and got John Baldwin
> to help me decode the register dumps.  The IP does end up in the SCSI BIOS
> extension somewhere, which is really scary.
...
> The Adaptec BIOS is doing something really fugly when it doesn't find
> proper partition tables on the disks.  
> 
> It does it if ANY of the disks are done 'dangerously dedicated.'

This also happens on IBM Netfinity 5600 servers (Adaptec 7890/91 on
motherboard).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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