I am also seeing BTX failures, but only from manual commands. The lsdev
command will cause BTX to fail (and halt) when it scans my CDROM/DVD. I am
using 4.1.1-RELEASE. I have a ABIT KA7-100 board (which uses the VIA686A
chipset for IDE access).
Tom Veldhouse
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Saab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Danny Braniss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux
hardware
> Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write:
> > } This is really weird. I have two valinux rackmount boxes, duel
cpu's.
> > }
> > } I was testing the PXE stuff and booting one of the boxes regularly.
> > } All of a sudden every time I reboot I get:
> > }
> >
> > i've seen the same, i just reboot it, and it works. sometimes, while
> > the kernel is doing it's init stuff it panics. i haven't seen it fail
> > more than once in a row, so i was thinking maybe some network error
> > that was not dealt properly. btw, the boxes are DELL.
>
> He was not seeing a PXE bug, it was a loader issue with the BIOS.
> The PXE bug you are seeing is with anything build 078 or earlier.
> Intel has a bug in their rom which they fixed back in March of this year.
>
> --
> Paul Saab
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