Re: BTX Halted

[Thomas Wahyudi]

I have the same problem but 32bit version is running normaly
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Re: BTX Halted

[Benjamin Lee]

On 10/06/2009 01:36 AM, Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu wrote:
> Dear all,
> I've found something strange I have never seen before. When start booting
> FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from ISO image in ESX 4.0 then error occurs. You can see
> it from snapshot.
> 
> I have following.
> 
> Dell R900 with 4 CPU, 64GB RAM
> ESX 4.0 installed on R900
> FreeBSD 7.2 amd64
> 
> What is this mean?

Did you create the guest with a 64-bit CPU?


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Re: BTX Halted

[Tim Judd]

On 10/6/09, Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu  wrote:
> Dear all,
> I've found something strange I have never seen before. When start booting
> FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from ISO image in ESX 4.0 then error occurs. You can see
> it from snapshot.
>
> I have following.
>
> Dell R900 with 4 CPU, 64GB RAM
> ESX 4.0 installed on R900
> FreeBSD 7.2 amd64
>
> What is this mean?
>
> Best regards,
> Tseveen.
>



BTX - BooT eXtender, the process of moving from 16-bit real mode to
32-bit (or 64-bit?) protected mode.  The system was unable to do this
conversion.  Happens on buggy "chipsets" (in quotes because this is on
ESX).  Go back to VM properties and double, triple check everything,
go into the BIOS and disable any "window-isms" like PnP OS, power
management, etc.


You might have a corrupt download, check your MD5/SHA1 and redownload
if applicable.


--TJ
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Re: BTX Halted

[Vilem Kebrt]

I dont know how anyone else but i don't see snapshot, can u please get 
it somewhere online and provide link ?

With regards
William
Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu napsal(a):

Dear all,
I've found something strange I have never seen before. When start booting
FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from ISO image in ESX 4.0 then error occurs. You can see
it from snapshot.

I have following.

Dell R900 with 4 CPU, 64GB RAM
ESX 4.0 installed on R900
FreeBSD 7.2 amd64

What is this mean?

Best regards,
Tseveen.




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Re: BTX halted on boot

[Matthew Seaman]

Dominik Meister wrote:

Hi

We are experiencing a problem with one of our FreBSD 6.2 machines. The
machine has been running fine for months until we had to reboot it. Now
it doesn't boot anymore. After the boot loader we get what looks like a
register dump:

FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)heap
boot: /boot/kernel/kernel\
int=000e  err=0002  efl=00010086  eip=c042426a
eax=c06da7a8  ebx=c06da7a0  ecx=  edx=f000ff53
esi=  edi=c06da57f  ebp=c08f6d4c  esp=c08f6d40
cs=0008  ds=0010  es=0010fs=0010  gs=0010  ss=0010
cs:eip=89 42 0c eb 07 90 8d 43-08 89 46 14 89 5e 10 8d
   46 10 89 43 0c 8b 47 0c-89 43 10 85 c0 74 0b 8b
ss:esp=7f a5 6d c0 00 00 8f 00-00 e0 8f 00 64 6d 8f c0
   75 3b 42 c0 a0 a7 6d c0-7f a5 6d c0 20 a5 6d c0
BTX halted

and the machine reboots.

Any suggestions what might be the problem? All I can find about "BTX
halted" references to problems when installing a fresh system and not
out of a sudden on machine which has been running fine before.

Any hints are highly appreciated.


This is telling you that the boot loader has become corrupted, and
is crashing.  A leading cause for this would be hardware failure --
something gone wonky with your hard drive.

Try booting the 'fixit' system from the installation media and see
if you can fsck and access the filesystems on the disk -- it may be
a localised problem that's killed the ability to boot from the drive leaving 
the rest unaffected.   Or the entire drive may be toast, and
you've got no option other than to get yourself a new drive and restore
from backup. Actually, given the fairly cheap price of disks nowadays,
I wouldn't try too hard to fix up the original disk: if you're going to 
have to spend some hours working on it, it's more economic to ditch

the old one and start afresh.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: BTX halted

[Patrick Clochesy]

Correct  -  a dl380 3.06 is a P4 Xeon, ie the old xeon... 32-bit.  
Linux detected that and ran a 32-bit kernel.


-Patrick

On Apr 25, 2008, at 7:24 PM, "Ian Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




-Original Message-
From: Ian Lord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 avril 2008 19:39
To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
Subject: BTX halted

Hi,

I'm trying to install freebsd 7 AMD64 on a HP Proliant DL380 Server  
(3gig

ram, Dual Xeon 3.06GHZ)

All firmware are up to date, and there is no memory problem or known  
problem

(Based on extended diagnostic of the system)

I installed windows 2003 to update the firmware without any problem.

When I boot from the freebsd cd, I see the  BSD Boot Menu
As soon as I get into "Boot freebsd" or "Boot freebsd safe mode" or  
"Boot

freebsd verbose mode" or "freebsd acpi mode d

There is a dump on the screen and the last line is btx halted.

I retyped the screen dump hoping someone could help me:

|
int=000d  err=  efl=00010006  eip=000219b2
eax=000219ac  ebx=  ecx=c080  edx=0006d948
esi=0003e007  edi=  ebp=000940bc  esp=0009e088
cs=0008  ds=0010fs=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:eso=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 3c d9 06 00
BTX halted

Any help would be really appreciated

Regards
~~~

I just downloaded i386 version of freebsd and I was able to get into  
the
setup menu. Would it be possible that my server is not compatible  
with AMD64

version of freebsd ?

It is compatible with linux AMD64 version though...

As anyone managed to run freebsd 7.0 AMD64 on a dl380 G3 ?

Thanks




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RE: BTX halted

[Ian Lord]

-Original Message-
From: Ian Lord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 25 avril 2008 19:39
To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
Subject: BTX halted

Hi,

I'm trying to install freebsd 7 AMD64 on a HP Proliant DL380 Server (3gig
ram, Dual Xeon 3.06GHZ)

All firmware are up to date, and there is no memory problem or known problem
(Based on extended diagnostic of the system)

I installed windows 2003 to update the firmware without any problem.

When I boot from the freebsd cd, I see the  BSD Boot Menu
As soon as I get into "Boot freebsd" or "Boot freebsd safe mode" or "Boot
freebsd verbose mode" or "freebsd acpi mode d

There is a dump on the screen and the last line is btx halted.

I retyped the screen dump hoping someone could help me:

|
int=000d  err=  efl=00010006  eip=000219b2
eax=000219ac  ebx=  ecx=c080  edx=0006d948
esi=0003e007  edi=  ebp=000940bc  esp=0009e088
cs=0008  ds=0010fs=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:eso=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 3c d9 06 00
BTX halted

Any help would be really appreciated

Regards
~~~

I just downloaded i386 version of freebsd and I was able to get into the
setup menu. Would it be possible that my server is not compatible with AMD64
version of freebsd ?

It is compatible with linux AMD64 version though...

As anyone managed to run freebsd 7.0 AMD64 on a dl380 G3 ?

Thanks




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Re: BTX Halted error on FreeBSD 6 & VMware Server

[Norberto Meijome]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:31:09 -0700
"Rogelio Bastardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm trying to install the latest FreeBSD boot cd on a VMware Server
> (running on CentOS).

works fine here (i have several FBSD 6 VMs under VMWare Server 1.0x under 
Centos 4.4 and Centos 5) can you please be more specific, what is the exact 
version + date of the "latest FreeBSD boot cd" you are using? 

B

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I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. 
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Re: BTX Halted on 6.1 but not 5.4

[Chris]

My question is, is there a good probability that if I install 5.4  
and cvsup to RELENG_6 that it will work. I didn't see anything that  
actually gave a clear definition of the BTX Halted error and am  
wondering if I put in 5 or 6 hours on this box, does the BTX Halted  
error provide any indication that it may have an issue anyway  
beyond just sysinstall? The cost of a mobo and CPU for a test  
system will end up a pretty cheap alternative if the hours start  
adding up.


Just to not leave the question without a searchable answer. Starting  
with 5.4 and cvsupping to 6.2 got around the issue.  Recap is 6.1  
Release wouldn't boot on a Compaq Presario 5WV280 Athlon 900, but  
after loading the 5.4 ISO, updating source and jumping directly to  
6.2 (without any technical issues in the jump), the 6.2 does work  
perfectly after rebuild of world. I've not found any  
incompatibilities yet. This is with all BIOS options enabled. I  
haven't the bandwidth to repeat the scenario with 6.2 Beta.

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[UPDATE] Re: BTX halted

[Norberto Meijome]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:01:30 +1000
Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:50:10 +0400
> "horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I install FreeBSD 5.3 from floppy-diskets. After a choice of
> > loading(default, safe_mode) there is a error:
> > int=000e  err=  efl=00010083  eip=95ca
> > eax=c101ffb8  ebx=c101ffb0  ecx=8c10  edx=ff02
> > esi=ffef  edi=1952  ebp=c1021d60  esp=c101ffa0
> > cs=0008  ds=0010  es=0010fs=0010  gs=0010  ss=0010
> > cs:eip=ac e8 46 00 00 00 fe c9-74 0c b0 2d 80 f9 08 74
> >02 b0 20 aa eb ea fe ca-74 0e b0 0a aa b1 07 b0
> > ss:esp=10 00 00 00 68 97 00 00-db 91 00 00 00 18 00 00
> >ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > BTX halted
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I got a similar looking error (sorry, dont have that particular box at hand to
> verify) when booting from 6.1-Release CD on a Shuttle Zen PC. HD already had a
> Gentoo 2006.0 installation on it.
>  
> No changes whether I booted without APIC of ACPI, or safe mode.
> 
> Beto
> 

I actually tried a bit later on with the same machine, but this time I had
wiped the first sectors ( about 2048, just to be safe) of the HD. 6.1 Release
CD #1 booted just fine, and I could install and use with no problem at all.
(actually, the UDMA  problems with IDE that I had with 5.3 were gone in 6.1 :)
great job! )

Before wiping it, it had Gentoo installed in it.

(Caveat - the msg I got included BTX Halted, but I cannot confirm whether all
the other information was similar).

B
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Re: BTX halted

[Boris Samorodov]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:42:42 +0400 horn wrote:

> I install FreeBSD 5.3 from floppy-diskets. After a choice of loading(default, 
> safe_mode,etc) there is a error:

> int=000e  err=  efl=00010083  eip=95ca
> eax=c101ffb8  ebx=c101ffb0  ecx=8c10  edx=ff02
> esi=ffef  edi=1952  ebp=c1021d60  esp=c101ffa0
> cs=0008  ds=0010  es=0010fs=0010  gs=0010  ss=0010
> cs:eip=ac e8 46 00 00 00 fe c9-74 0c b0 2d 80 f9 08 74
>02 b0 20 aa eb ea fe ca-74 0e b0 0a aa b1 07 b0
> ss:esp=10 00 00 00 68 97 00 00-db 91 00 00 00 18 00 00
>ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> BTX halted

> On it all stops. What to do?

Try to use FreeBSD-5.5 or FreeBSD-6.1 (better).


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Re: BTX halted

[Norberto Meijome]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:50:10 +0400
"horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I install FreeBSD 5.3 from floppy-diskets. After a choice of loading(default, 
> safe_mode) there is a error:
> int=000e  err=  efl=00010083  eip=95ca
> eax=c101ffb8  ebx=c101ffb0  ecx=8c10  edx=ff02
> esi=ffef  edi=1952  ebp=c1021d60  esp=c101ffa0
> cs=0008  ds=0010  es=0010fs=0010  gs=0010  ss=0010
> cs:eip=ac e8 46 00 00 00 fe c9-74 0c b0 2d 80 f9 08 74
>02 b0 20 aa eb ea fe ca-74 0e b0 0a aa b1 07 b0
> ss:esp=10 00 00 00 68 97 00 00-db 91 00 00 00 18 00 00
>ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> BTX halted
> 
> 
> 

I got a similar looking error (sorry, dont have that particular box at hand to
verify) when booting from 6.1-Release CD on a Shuttle Zen PC. HD already had a
Gentoo 2006.0 installation on it.
 
No changes whether I booted without APIC of ACPI, or safe mode.

Beto
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Re: BTX halted

[kalin mintchev]

thanks for the reply...

> kalin mintchev wrote:
>> ok..  i tried installing 5.2.1 from iso. the same pain...
>> the machine has energy BIOS v6.00PG
>> board version tag is:
>> K7SEM Ver:1.1b 09/28/2001
> [ ... ]
>
> Later on in this message you mentioned you were looking at
amd64/5.3-REL,
> but
>   from the name & date of the BIOS I think you have an AMD32
motherboard,
> not
> AMD64:  http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7sem.html

ok. this is probably it.

>
> If this is so, then you would certainly do better to install the 32-bit
generic x86 version of FreeBSD 5.3.

ok. i thought you can not install x86 versions on systems with amd cpus.
i'll try that... kinda new to amd - always used intel.

> However, you also mentioned that
> Windows
> was blue-screening, which suggests that there may be other problems with
the
> system as well, possibly a bad power supply or the like.

will double check power supply...

>
> --
> -Chuck

thank you


>
>


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Re: BTX halted

[Chuck Swiger]

kalin mintchev wrote:
ok..  i tried installing 5.2.1 from iso. the same pain...
the machine has energy BIOS v6.00PG
board version tag is:
K7SEM Ver:1.1b 09/28/2001
[ ... ]
Later on in this message you mentioned you were looking at amd64/5.3-REL, but 
 from the name & date of the BIOS I think you have an AMD32 motherboard, not 
AMD64:  http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7sem.html

If this is so, then you would certainly do better to install the 32-bit 
generic x86 version of FreeBSD 5.3.  However, you also mentioned that Windows 
was blue-screening, which suggests that there may be other problems with the 
system as well, possibly a bad power supply or the like.

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Re: BTX halted

[kalin mintchev]

ok..  i tried installing 5.2.1 from iso. the same pain...
the machine has energy BIOS v6.00PG
board version tag is:
K7SEM Ver:1.1b 09/28/2001

virus protection is disabled
UltraDMA is disabled for the primary master and slave and the secondary
ones too...   on some posts online disabling DMA in the BIOS is being
offered as a solution but i have only UltraDMA options...
IDE HDD Block mode is enabled..

the primary drive has windows (i think w2k) installed on it which i want
to wipe out. the windows doesn't boot either - basically the blue screen
of death.

at this point the situation is getting rather unpleasant...

my next step is to try to figure out how to update the bios on this board
and see if that will happened at all...

any leads or help will be appreciated.


thanks a lot...


> Hi!
>
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:23:33AM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote:
>> this is a few days old. i got a reply saying to try floppies but from
>> the
>> INSTALL.txt under the amd64/5.3-REL it says:
>> 1.3 Floppy Disk Image Instructions
>>
>>Floppy disk based install is not supported on FreeBSD/amd64.
>>
>> like i said i played with bios settings and nothing really worked.
>> can somebody help?
>>
>> thanks..
>>
>>
>> > hi all...
>> >
>> > i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine...
>> > i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the
>> boot
>> > stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose.
>> > i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non
>> of
>> > that helped - i couldn't find how to disable DMA. the only location i
>> saw
>> > the DMA mentioned was under PnP/PCI configurations => Resources
>> Controlled
>> > by in the bios but there the setting is Auto(ESCD). i tried al the
>> options
>> > there and it still stops at the same place...
>> >
>> > anybody can help?!
>> >
>> > thanks
>
> In similar circumstances (but with FreeBSD/i386) I succeeded by
> installing one of the previous releases and upgrading by sources.
>
> WBR
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Re: BTX halted

[Boris B. Samorodov]

Hi!

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:23:33AM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote:
> this is a few days old. i got a reply saying to try floppies but from the
> INSTALL.txt under the amd64/5.3-REL it says:
> 1.3 Floppy Disk Image Instructions
> 
>Floppy disk based install is not supported on FreeBSD/amd64.
> 
> like i said i played with bios settings and nothing really worked.
> can somebody help?
> 
> thanks..
> 
> 
> > hi all...
> >
> > i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine...
> > i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot
> > stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose.
> > i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non of
> > that helped - i couldn't find how to disable DMA. the only location i saw
> > the DMA mentioned was under PnP/PCI configurations => Resources Controlled
> > by in the bios but there the setting is Auto(ESCD). i tried al the options
> > there and it still stops at the same place...
> >
> > anybody can help?!
> >
> > thanks

In similar circumstances (but with FreeBSD/i386) I succeeded by
installing one of the previous releases and upgrading by sources.

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Re: BTX halted

[kalin mintchev]

this is a few days old. i got a reply saying to try floppies but from the
INSTALL.txt under the amd64/5.3-REL it says:
1.3 Floppy Disk Image Instructions

   Floppy disk based install is not supported on FreeBSD/amd64.

like i said i played with bios settings and nothing really worked.
can somebody help?

thanks..


> hi all...
>
> i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine...
> i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot
> stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose.
> i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non of
> that helped - i couldn't find how to disable DMA. the only location i saw
> the DMA mentioned was under PnP/PCI configurations => Resources Controlled
> by in the bios but there the setting is Auto(ESCD). i tried al the options
> there and it still stops at the same place...
>
> anybody can help?!
>
> thanks
>
>
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RE: BTX halted

[Subhro]

The first advice I would give is, go and trying flashing your BIOS with an
updated version.

Regards
S.

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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kalin mintchev
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:04
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: BTX halted
> 
> hi all...
> 
> i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine...
> i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot
> stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose.
> i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non of
> that helped - i couldn't find how to disable DMA. the only location i saw
> the DMA mentioned was under PnP/PCI configurations => Resources Controlled
> by in the bios but there the setting is Auto(ESCD). i tried al the options
> there and it still stops at the same place...
> 
> anybody can help?!
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
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> 
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Re: BTX halted on backup server

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 10:03:07PM -0800, Jeffrey S. Kaye wrote:
> We have two servers, one mirrors the other.  The backup server showed 
> the following a couple days ago.  It's still down.  Any ideas?  The 
> primary is working just fine.
> -jk
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED] , 
> Thu Apr 3 08:41:45 GMT 2003)
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> /kernel text=0x171368 data=0x2342c+0x1bd08
> \
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> Booting [kernel]...
> -
> int=000d  err=  efl=00010093   eip=002b200a
> eax=0011e2e0   ebx=  ecx=0003   edx=000274c0
> esi=   edi=0003841c   ebp=00094a7d   esp=0009ea3f
> cs=0008   ds=0010   es=0010   fs=0010   gs=0010   ss=0010
> cs:eip=6f 6e 73 6f 6c 65 3d 76-69 64 63 6f 6e 73 6f 6c
> ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 47 95 00-00 00 00 00 80 04 00 20
> BTX halted

The boot loader cannot read the kernel from the disk drive into
memory.  That's pretty bad.  Often it indicates that the disk has
crashed. Or it could be a memory stick going AWOL.  Or the CPU itself
may have died.

You need to investigate the machine to check if all of the hardware is
in working order, and then depending on what you find, you probably
need to reinstall and recover the system from backup.

Try running memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.org/) from a floppy for
several testing cycles: if memtest86 shows errors, then you've
definitely got bad memory.  If it doesn't show any errors, then you
might still have bad memory, just beyond what memtest86 can detect;
however that is quite rare.

Next try booting from disk2 (from the installation media set) -- if
that succeeds in booting and the memtest86 stuff ran OK then the CPU
is probably OK.

Then you can try running fsck(8) on all of the filesystems on your
hard drive -- you may need to run it several times over the same
partition.  With luck you'll be able to get it to say 'filesystem
clean'.  Note that even if fsck(8) says the filesystem is clean,
various files and directories may have disappeared, so recovering from
backup once you've verified the hardware would be a good idea.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: BTX HALTED!!! I can't get this rocket in the air

[Saint Aardvark the Carpeted]

Jerry Schromm disturbed my sleep to write:
> Hi FreeBSD folk. 
> I am reading this install guide. And it doesn't get me past this one.
> For one. I downloaded the AMD64 ISO's. And this loader say's freeBSD/i386. Anyway. 
> I boot to the loader and I can't select anything. Then BTX HALTED. That is all she
> wrote. If you all have the answer to this one. Please inform me. 

I've seen this error on a few systems I've installed FreeBSD on, and
usually managed to get around it by fiddling with DMA options in the BIOS.
Which option I had to change varied between boxes, but look for anything
that mentions DMA (UltraDMA, DMA Mode, whatever) or PIO, and start
methodically tweaking them one at a time.

HTH,
Hugh

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Re: BTX HALTED!!! I can't get this rocket in the air

[Nico Meijer]

Hi Jerry,
I have an AMD ATHLON XP SYSTEM I am installing this on.
Dunno about the loader part, but you don't want to install the amd64 
port on an athlon xp.

Get the i386 port. You'll be fine.
HTH... Nico
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Re: BTX Halted by lsdev

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

David Jones wrote:

Hi all - I'm still trying to debug my first install of
FreeBSD (4.9-RELEASE).  Can anyone suggest why lsdev would
hang with the following?  bcachestat also reports a lot of
misses - would this point at dodgy memory?
ok heap
Active Allocations: 581/598
155648 bytes reserved 62288 bytes allocated
7 fragments (13152 bytes fragmented)
heap base at 0x28f00, top at 0x4ef00
ok
ok
ok bcachestat
<8 lines>
777 ops  0 bypasses  571 hits  5352 misses  1 flushes
ok
ok
ok lsdev
cd @ 0xff5c
disk @ 0xef68
   disk0:   BIOS drive A:
   disk0a: FFS
   disk0c: FFS
   disk1:   BIOS drive B:
   disk2:   BIOS drive C:
int=  err=  efl=00010246  eip=fpcd
eax=  ebx=00094d28  ecx=a000  edx=
esi=00094ad4  edi=00094d10  ebp=00094aac  esp=00094a74
cs=002b  ds=0033  es=0033fs=0033  gs=0033  ss=0033
cs:eip=f7 75 fc 89 45 f8 89 d0-8b 4d 08 31 d2 f7 71 10
ss:esp=28 4d 09 00 6c 83 03 00-10 4d 09 00 84 4c 09 00
BTX halted
 

Possibly memory ... but IIRC, I've also seen similar behavior
when having trouble with an IDE controller :-( 
Kevin Kinsey
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Re: BTX halted

[Roger Merritt]

At 02:24 AM 7/2/03, you wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Merritt wrote:
>
> BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
>
> int=0006  err=  efl=00010246  eip=1934
> eax=00021d60  ebx=  ecx=  edx=
> esi=  edi=00020c34  ebp=00094bec  esp=00094bdc
> cs=0026  db=0033  es=0033  fs=0033  gs=0033  ss=0033
> cs:eip=0f 44 d6 89 55 fc 46 83-2c b7 00 74 05 83 fa ff
> ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff
> BTX halted
>
did you try a hard power reset after this message?  I have an old
IBM intellistation that does the same thing with 5.x.  After I install
I get the BTX halted, but if I cold boot it after the message it
will boot.
Well, not exactly. I'll give it a try. I *did* try just hitting the reset 
button and that didn't make any change. I also turned off the power, 
removed the hard drive, took it back to its original box, booted up, 
recompiled the kernel, brought it back to the new(er) box and plugged it 
back in, and powered up. I also tried booting up with floppies (succeeded) 
and tried running 'fdisk -B ad0' to try to replace the MBR, but that had no 
effect. I've tried it on a third, even older box, which I'm running FreeBSD 
on, and it wouldn't boot up there either -- same error.

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Re: BTX halted

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:00:56AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
> I recently got a new, large hard drive for one of my two servers and 
> transferred everything over from the old 4GB drive. So then I wanted to 
> take the old drive and combine it with the other old drive -- my idea is to 
> transfer /usr/home to one of them and leave the rest of the system on the 
> other. We also got new machines for our students, which gave me another box 
> that is just a little better than the box I'm currently using -- 200MHz 
> instead of 166MHz. The thing is, I'm not entirely sure what chip is in the 
> 200Mhz box. The old hard drive was compiled for an i686, while the other 
> server is compiled for an i586.

You forgot to mention which version of FreeBSD you're trying to run.

You also didn't mention details of the "large" hard drive.  Some old
BIOSes cannot handle booting from large hard drives (typically > 8
GB).

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Re: BTX halted

[othermark]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Merritt wrote:
> 
> BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
> 
> int=0006  err=  efl=00010246  eip=1934
> eax=00021d60  ebx=  ecx=  edx=
> esi=  edi=00020c34  ebp=00094bec  esp=00094bdc
> cs=0026  db=0033  es=0033  fs=0033  gs=0033  ss=0033
> cs:eip=0f 44 d6 89 55 fc 46 83-2c b7 00 74 05 83 fa ff
> ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff
> BTX halted
> 

did you try a hard power reset after this message?  I have an old 
IBM intellistation that does the same thing with 5.x.  After I install 
I get the BTX halted, but if I cold boot it after the message it
will boot.

---
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Re: BTX halted when installing on a HP Proliant DL360 G3

[David Landgren]

David Landgren wrote:

Replying to myself, for the sake of the archives.

List,

I just received a new batch of servers to deploy. Among the lot I have 3 
HP Proliant DL360 G3 servers that refuse to run the installation CD. I 
think this is because HP have switched to Ultra 320 drives and I don't 
think FreeBSD has caught up with that. I have two 18Gb 15000rpm drives 
mounted in RAID-1.

The BIOS says "Proliant System BIOS - P31 (03/01/2003)".

I've tried various BIOS options, but the boot always goes like this:

Miniboot 4.1
Attempting Boot From CD-ROM
CD Loader 1.01
Building the boot loader arguments
Lookup up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader
BTX Loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0
inf=000d err= efl=00030006
...
BTX halted
I.e.: it looks like it's when it hunts for hard disks.

I trawled the archives and learnt that people had similar problems on 
Compaq hardware, although with Adaptec controllers. The solution there 
was to create a DOS partition on the disk beforehand. I tried this, with 
no success.

I've tried booting from 4.8-RELEASE, 5.1-RELEASE and the 5.1 miniloader, 
all with similar results. I also tried booting of an OpenBSD 3.3 CD. It 
gets a bit further, but when it comes to choosing I for Install, it 
reports that there are no hard disks available.

It seems like FreeBSD simply hasn't caught up yet. I had a look at the 
Testdrive machines offered by HP, but they're still running 4.8 on a 
DL360 G2.

If anyone has some idea as to how to proceed, I'd be really grateful. 
The only alternative would be to try and install Linux. But I've been 
unhappy with Linux performance under load in the past (and it's these 
servers I'm replacing) so it would be sad to continue in that vein.

Thanks for the clues,
Daisuke Koike got me onto the right track by pointing me to 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=61247+63991+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-stable/20030525.freebsd-stable

The thread there talks about disabling a BIOS setting named "Virtual 
boot device". Unfortunately my BIOS doesn't have that option. I had 
another look, and found a different option named "Virtual install 
disk" and this one was enabled. I set it to disabled, rebooted, and 
FreeBSD booted successfully from the CD-ROM. Hope this helps someone 
in the future.

Thanks again Daisuke-san.

David

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RE: BTX Halted and Fatal Trap 12 errors on older machine

[Aaron Burke]

> I've got this spare machine, and I thought it would be perfect as a
> FreeBSD box to play with.  It's a P-100mHz, with 32MB RAM, floppy, video
> card, two PCI NICs, 50X CDROM, 40GB Western Digital hard drive, and one
> IDE controller.  
> 
> However, I can't boot at all from any bootable FreeBSD ISO (tried
> 4.5,4.6,4.7, and 5.0).  I can boot RedHat, Windows, and NetBSD cds
> though.  When I try to boot from CD, I get a BTX Halted error message
> right away, before the hardware even gets probed.  I tried changing
> every BIOS setting possible, but the FreeBSD ISO's just don't work on
> this system.  Anyone have any ideas why I would get this error?
> 
> So, I then used the bootable floppies and successfully started
> sysinstall.  Each of about 25 installation attempts failed at different
> points with "Fatal Trap 12" errors.  Installations failed during
> sysinstall extracting files, and during Gnome or KDE installation,
> either installing from CD or FTP.  Sometimes installation would
> successfully complete, I would reboot, login, do some stuff, and then
> another Fatal Trap 12 error would appear.  This occurred while
> installing various packages, while upgrading ports tree with cvsup, and
> during compiling/installation of various ports.
> 
> The only thing that seems to be a common thread is that the Fatal Trap
> 12 errors occur during heavy disk read/write periods.  Memtest-86 showed
> no memory errors at all, and I ran a disk utility to check for badblocks
> on hd, and the drive is healthy.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the BTX errors and the Fatal Trap 12 errors are
> probably not related...
They could be.

> 
> Before I spend more time on this dang machine, does it sound like there
> is something that I can work around these problems with?  Or should I
> just forget about this miserable thing?
There are a few things that might be causing this. To me, allthough
I am not a motherboard expert, sounds like you may be having some
difficulties with your motherboard. There are a few things
that you can try before giving up on FreeBSD.

Avoid overclocking your CPU. You may also try underclocking it
and seeing if that fixes your BTX halted messages.
Also, the fact that you have tried FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x shows
me that its not specific to any version of FreeBSD. For example
FreeBSD 5.0 accesses parts of the mainboard differently by using
ACPI. Since this is an older mainboard, you may have to look
up some settings and move some jumpers around on the mainboard
for this.

There are a few other mainboard things that could be affecting
the installation (or lack there of). One of them is RAM, are
your memory sticks showing signs of errors? I have had Windows
2000 install but run poorly in the past, whereas FreeBSD failed.
After replacing the RAM in the system, FreeBSD installed and
worked fine. I have not run Windows 2000 on that box since, so
I am not sure if that fixed some of Windows 2000's problems.

Also, you can try to load the failsafe configuration settings
in your bios. (if they are available)

I am sure some other people on this list can offer some other,
and perhaps better advise.

> 
> Thanks,
No problem, thats what some of us are here for.

> 
> Trying hard to use freebsd... 
> Adam
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Re: BTX halted

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:04:07PM +0300, Ülkü SAYILAN wrote:

> I have installed the freebsd 4.3 to no name SCSI pent 166 pc after
> installation, during boot process he has gave error like this
> 
> int:...   err:0001aefl:..1026   eip
> esi:0..   ebx:0.. 0ecx: edx
> cs:0...   ed:0...43ebp:.esp
> 
> 
> ds es fs gs ss
> cs:eip:cc:00..00
> ss:ep:..0300
> 
> BTX halted
> 
> 
> What's the mean of this, anybody can explane this message?!?!?
> 
> is the problem depend on SCSI boot/disk partition, or ethernet cards?
> or anythings?

That's the boot loader crashing.  That's pretty severe.  In principal,
given the crashdump you've printed out, it should be possible to go
into the loader code and work out what was happening at that point,
but you'ld probably have to ask on freebsd-hackers to find someone
with the skills to do that.

This could be one of a number of problems --- disk hardware failure,
problems with the BIOS, wrong disk geometry.  It's unlikely to be
anything to do with the NICs.

One problem, and the first thing to check, is something that used to
be fairly common until sysinstall was modified to remove the
temptation to use such things. "Dangerously dedicated" disks sound
pretty cool to the uninitiated, but beware: many SCSI
controllers/bioses can't cope with them.  Unfortunately, the only
solution if you've installed your system this way is to go back to the
beginning and start all over again, and this time, install a proper
partition table.

If that isn't the case, can you verify that you can boot using the
boot blocks from the installation media (I assume CD Rom)?

Use this procedure:

Start to boot the system from the CD.  When you get the 10 second
count down, hit the space bar to interrupt.  You should end up at
the boot: prompt.

Now type:

unload
lsdev

This will either generate a BTX dump (in which case, you've
probably got pretty bad hardware problems) or it should show you a
list of all potential boot devices, including your hard drive. Now
type:

set currdev={harddrive}  (ie. what lsdev returned for your HD)
load kernel
boot

and you should end up with a running system.

If that whole rigmarole worked, then the problem is that somehow the
boot blocks on your hard drive have become scrambled, and you can
probably repair things by reinstalling them.

If it didn't work and you're not using dangerously dedicated disks,
then you've got really nasty trouble lowlevel trouble which will take
time, effort and probably the services of a FreeBSD guru to sort out.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: BTX Halted

[Bob Johnson]

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 08:26 am, Hideaki Saito appears to have 
written:
> Hi!
>
> I can boot from a FreeBSD 4.6 CD, but installations have been halted
> with below messages.
>
> int=000d err= efl=00030246 eip=
> eax=0800 ebx=0700 ecx= edx=
> esi  edi= ebp=03c8 esp=03ba
>
> cs= ds= es=3147 fs=9f80 gs= ss=9e3c
>
> cs:eip=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> ss:esp=e9 81 00 f0 13 02 00 04-b8 47 80 9f 80 9f 00 00
>
>
> The machine is Packmate by Packard Bell. I checked BIOS settings, but
> nothing was wrong. CD-ROM and Hard Disk Drives were properly
> recognized. Sometimes there were massages "Failure Fixed Disk0"
> before starting BTX
>
> Could anyone tell me what were happening ?
>

At what point is the system halting?

I'm not entirely sure this is your problem, but 4.6-RELEASE had 
problems with both some ATA CDROM drives and (I think) some 
ATA hard drives.  

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6.2R/errata.html (section 3) 
describes a workaround for the CDROM problems, which 
might help you.   

The better solution would be to install 4.6.2-RELEASE instead, 
that's why it was released.  Or wait a few more weeks for 4.7.

Good luck,

- Bob

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