pxe boot: BTX halted
Hello, I am desperately trying to get pxe boot running. The client machine is a PentiumMMX/166MHz which successfully boots FreeBSD from hard disk. It is connected to the server machine's second ethernet card xl0 (3com). I can boot the client with etherboot from a floppy withoudt problems, but usually have no floppy connected to the machine. When I run ethereal on the server machine I see successful dhcp and tftp requests. No obvious problems. The client machine comes up with Intel UNDI PXE-2.0 (build 074). PXEBOOT usually crashes with int 6 or int d. CS:EIP points to nothing: ff ff ff ff ... The final message is: 'BTX halted'. Any idea? Thank you, Norbert Koch ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxe boot: BTX halted
Hello, I am desperately trying to get pxe boot running. The client machine is a PentiumMMX/166MHz which successfully boots FreeBSD from hard disk. It is connected to the server machine's second ethernet card xl0 (3com). I can boot the client with etherboot from a floppy withoudt problems, but usually have no floppy connected to the machine. When I run ethereal on the server machine I see successful dhcp and tftp requests. No obvious problems. The client machine comes up with Intel UNDI PXE-2.0 (build 074). PXEBOOT usually crashes with int 6 or int d. CS:EIP points to nothing: ff ff ff ff ... The final message is: 'BTX halted'. Any idea? you could try to update the PXE firmware for your card. i have encountered some problems with older PXE cards ( go to manufacturers website ). furthermore, please post ( your / the relevant portion of ) dhcpd.conf regards, Jan___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PXE boot / BTX Halted [solved]
I'm trying to set up a few diskless workstations using some old hardware. I've tried four different boxes for clients ranging from a P-133 to a P-200. I did use the same Realtek 8139 based NIC in all 4 boxes, but I don't think that's the problem. They all get to the point where they grab pxeboot via tftp and then a message snip I'm using the instructions from http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/09/diskless_server.html and http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/30/diskless_clients.html snip All pointers, hints, RTFMs, etc. will be greatly appreciated. An update with with info I hope is more useful. I found an eepro100 card and updated the Intel Boot Agent to version 4.1.16. Using this card gets me a little further. Taking out the 4th stuff per the ONLamp instructions, yields a dump and BTX Halted right after: pxe_open: gateway ip: 192.168.1.254 /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x5021c8 data=0x7cc10+0x4fe30 syms=[0x4+0x5a690+0x4+0x6f5d8] Leaving it in, it happens right after the Beastie menu timer finishes counting down. In both cases I get the exact same (register?) values. And here they are: int=0006 err= efl=00010002 eip=c0650b2f eax= ebx=c0a9a006 ecx=0005 edx=c0a9a009 esi=c0a9a000 edi=0005 ebp=c0c21bd0 esp=c0c21bd0 cs=0008 ds=0010 es=0010 fs=0010 qs=0010 ss=0010 es:eip=0f 44 d0 89 d0 5d c3 8d-76 00 8d bc 22 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 83 ec 08 8b-45 08 8b 50 04 89 54 24 ss:esp=f0 1b c2 c0 db 05 65 c0-00 a0 a9 c0 00 a0 a9 c0 05 00 00 00 a3 5d 8e c0-00 e0 c1 00 00 00 00 00 BTX Halted I tried a 2nd box with the same card and got the same results. What am I doing wrong? Are there any BIOS settings I should be checking? Is my equipment simply too antiquated or not supported? Are there any other debugging steps I can take? I found the solution in the last handful of messages in this thread http://groups-beta.google.com/group/fa.freebsd.stable/browse_thread/thread/158bf491d67001b2/08bc3c981811414a The problem was I'd set CPUTYPE=p3 when rebuilding world and the i586s I'd been trying for clients did not like that. It seems obvious in hind site. Everything is working wonderfully with the Intel NIC, but BTX still dies when I try with the RTL8139/Etherboot combo. :-s ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PXE boot / BTX Halted
Jason Taylor wrote: I'm trying to set up a few diskless workstations using some old hardware. I've tried four different boxes for clients ranging from a P-133 to a P-200. I did use the same Realtek 8139 based NIC in all 4 boxes, but I don't think that's the problem. They all get to the point where they grab pxeboot via tftp and then a message snip I'm using the instructions from http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/09/diskless_server.html and http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/30/diskless_clients.html snip All pointers, hints, RTFMs, etc. will be greatly appreciated. An update with with info I hope is more useful. I found an eepro100 card and updated the Intel Boot Agent to version 4.1.16. Using this card gets me a little further. Taking out the 4th stuff per the ONLamp instructions, yields a dump and BTX Halted right after: pxe_open: gateway ip: 192.168.1.254 /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x5021c8 data=0x7cc10+0x4fe30 syms=[0x4+0x5a690+0x4+0x6f5d8] Leaving it in, it happens right after the Beastie menu timer finishes counting down. In both cases I get the exact same (register?) values. And here they are: int=0006 err= efl=00010002 eip=c0650b2f eax= ebx=c0a9a006 ecx=0005 edx=c0a9a009 esi=c0a9a000 edi=0005 ebp=c0c21bd0 esp=c0c21bd0 cs=0008 ds=0010 es=0010 fs=0010 qs=0010 ss=0010 es:eip=0f 44 d0 89 d0 5d c3 8d-76 00 8d bc 22 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 83 ec 08 8b-45 08 8b 50 04 89 54 24 ss:esp=f0 1b c2 c0 db 05 65 c0-00 a0 a9 c0 00 a0 a9 c0 05 00 00 00 a3 5d 8e c0-00 e0 c1 00 00 00 00 00 BTX Halted I tried a 2nd box with the same card and got the same results. What am I doing wrong? Are there any BIOS settings I should be checking? Is my equipment simply too antiquated or not supported? Are there any other debugging steps I can take? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
