Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Derek Ragona wrote:

  Obviously it is the SCSI card or drives.  Have you tried changing the
 BIOS settings on the SCSI?  You might want to try changing the SCSI BUS
 speed.  You may also want to try turning off hyperthreading.

 -Derek

Disabling Hyperthreading didn't do anything, and i cannot find many options
for the SCSI. I'll try lowering the speed and i will also try another drive
if i can find one.
I also tried 8.0-current bootcd and that lists the dvd-rom and the floppy
but none of the disks.

There's another four x225:s at work but they all have lsi-controllers. I was
really looking forward to using the hotswap..

Thank you for your replies, i hope you can help me fix this eventually
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IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop

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I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on my new server, an IBM eServer x225
(8647-5CG)
The server/drives runs fine under windows 2003 and ubuntu server but the
FreeBSD installation just halts.

So far i've tried:
CD: disk1 from 6.2, 7.0,
CD: bootonly from 7.0
Floppys: 7.0

They all end the same, cds with an infinite loop of numbers, floppys with
BTX Halted and a lot of numbers.

int=000derr=efl=00010006eip=000219b2
eax=000219acebx=ecx=c080edx=000587d8
esi=0003e007edi=ebp=0008fcbcesp=00099c88
cs=0008   ds=0010   es=0010   fs=0010   gs=0010   ss=0010
cs:eip=0f 32 0d 00 01 00 00 0f-30 0f 20 e0 83 c8 30 0f
   22 e0 b8 00 c0 03 00 0f-22 d8 0f 20 c0 0d 00 00
ss:esp=90 95 00 00 00 80 fc 00-00 90 fc 00 07 e0 03 00
   00 00 00 00 07 d0 03 00-00 00 00 00 cc 87 05 00
BTX halted

The only difference is when i boot from 7.0-STABLE-200804-i386-bootonly.iso,
then i see

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0

Then it stops.
If i remove both the harddrives i can boot into the freebsd installer, but
as there are no drives, there is nowhere to install.

Atleast when i started with the floppys it detected drive1 and 2 before BTX
halted..

I dont know what to do anymore, there is just no way to get freebsd to
install on this thing.
Is it the LSI controller, it should still be initiated when there are no
drives in it, and the installation starts fine then.
Is it the Motherboard, the bios, the cpu, the ram? what?
The disks, having just one in doesn't work, switching positions doesn't
work?

Does anyone have any idea on how i can proceed once i'm in the installation,
can i mount the drives and install somehow?

The hardware is:
1x Xeon 2.8GHz(512KB), 2x 2048MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (ecc), 2x 74GB 10K rpm
U320 HDD, Ultra320 SCSI, 48x CD-ROM, Broadcom NetXtreme 10/100/1000
Integrated Ethernet, ATI Rage XL
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