Hangs and BTX halted when booting mfsBSD image
Hi everyone, One of our remote servers was not able to have FreeBSD installed by the datacenter and I would like to correct that by using the mfsBSD image method to install remotely. I've been trying to test this locally in a virtual machine to make sure everything will go smoothly before doing it on the actual server. I created the mfsBSD image using the 8.2-RELEASE i386 ISO and wrote it to the boot drive using dd as mentioned in the documentation which went well with no errors, however the virtual machine hangs upon booting. It gets as far as showing the FreeBSD boot loader menu and counting down, but it just hangs after that. If I leave it running while hung a BTX halted error will eventually come up (after about 20 minutes when using 8.2; 8.1 immediately gives the BTX halted error). I've tried this in all the major emulators (qemu, VirtualBox, and VMWare) to hopefully rule out any one of them causing an issue. Booting the created mfsBSD image directly works with no issues, it's just after writing it over the Linux install using dd that it does not boot properly. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, -Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Random kernel blocking loop message (btx halted)
Hi folks, Sometimes (really rare), when I boot these messages appears in a infinite loop : http://markand.malikania.fr/Photo0393.jpg These messages are printed so fast that I can't read it, happily Scroll lock key let me take a picture. When this appears I have no solution instead rebooting with ctrl + alt + delete. My machine is running on a Intel DH55HC with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64. Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Possible workaround for 'BTX halted' error
Hi, I have an old 200 MHz Pentium Pro. A slow machine by today's standards but my intention was to put a minimal installation of FreeBSD 7.2 on it (ultimately installing to a CF or SD memory card using an IDE adapter), turning it into a very basic home office firewall and not much else. One of the problems I encountered (which I've also encountered on other old PCs) was the dreaded BTX halted error when attempting to boot from the FreeBSD install CD: AMIBIOS (C)1992 American Megatrends, Inc. (C) 1992 - 1998 Intel Corporation. BIOS Version 1.00.18.CS1 Intel Corporation VS440FX Motherboard Serial Number: M04090465 0131072 KB Press F1 Key if you want to run SETUP Hard Disk 0 Installed QUANTUM FIREBALL EL2.5A CD Loader 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 int= err= efl=00010246 eip=0002c85b eax= ebx= ecs= edx= esi= edi=00040320 ebp=00093ff8 esp=00093fc4 cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=f7 f1 85 db 89 c1 89 45-94 74 08 8b 55 18 89 32 89 7a 04 89 4d 98 8b 45-94 8b 55 98 83 c4 6c 5b ss:esp=91 01 00 00 dc df 09 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 20 00-60 01 20 00 0b 00 20 00 BTX halted At this point the machine freezes. Ctrl+Alt+Del won't reset it. I've seen the same bug crop up occasionally for more than a few years now (since FreeBSD 5.x, I think). Presumably there's no urgency to fix it. Until now the workaround I used was to boot from floppy diskettes (all five of them) made from the images in the \floppies directory on the install CD. The FreeBSD installer would then operate normally and install from the CD. But this is frustrating as diskettes are obviously terribly slow and often unreliable. Today by accident I found a much simpler workaround. There's a freeware program called PLoP Boot Manager that can be used to boot from CD. I burnt plpbtinnoemul.iso (from plpbt-5.0.4.zip) to CD on another PC then got the Pentium Pro to boot from it. When I reached the boot menu I took out the PLoP CD, replaced it with the FreeBSD 7.2 CD and told PLoP to boot from that. FreeBSD 7.2 then proceeded to boot from CD with no apparent problems. I've successfully booted FreeBSD 7.2, 7.0, 6.2, 5.4 5.3 from CD on this machine using the PLoP CD as a boot loader. Also a recent version of the FreeNAS LiveCD. PLoP isn't required to boot the FreeBSD 4.10 CD on this machine, but the 4.10 CD causes it to freeze very early on with no messages displayed if I do use PLoP to boot it. http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html Apologies if this is long-winded, but I haven't seen this information anywhere else, so I thought I'd pass it on! I hope it helps someone. Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
BTX Halted
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BTX Halted
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BTX Halted
On 10/6/09, Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu tseveend...@gmail.com 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BTX Halted
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? -- Benjamin Lee http://www.b1c1l1.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: BTX Halted
I have the same problem but 32bit version is running normaly ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop
underligast wrote: 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 Ok, so 8-CURRENT boots? There have been modifications to the boot loader, I think they will be present in 7.1. The controller is a different problem - apparently the driver doesn't recognize it. There are a few things you can try but all of them depend on that you can compile and boot a different kernel on the machine (i.e. different from what's on the official CDs). If you can do this (for example, by installing a test system on a drive on a different, supported controller, or possibly on a USB drive), ask on hardware@ mailing list for further instructions. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop
At 04:56 AM 8/6/2008, underligast wrote: 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 It sounds like your controller either it isn't recognized or supported. You can try a different SCSI card or see if your SCSI has a firmware that is update-able and try different firmware version. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop
At 01:42 PM 8/5/2008, underligast wrote: 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 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop
underligast wrote: 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. Just to be sure, try bootonly 8-CURRENT. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
BTX halted on boot
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. Thanks, Dominik -- Dominik Meister My public GnuPG key is available at http://www.meisternet.ch/gpg.txt pgphDIBbMvRwY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BTX halted on boot
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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Problem Installing, BTX Halted
Hi there, I am new to FreeBSD and trying to install a fresh FreeBSD OS to my computer. However, I am getting BTX error as below: Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER.. Found relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Consoles: internal video/keyboard int=000d err= efl=00030206 eip=2937 eax=8001 ebx=0700 ecx= edx=009f esi=0b3c edi= ebp= esp=03d2 cs=f000 ds=48ae es=4892 fs= gs= ss=9dbb cs=eip=2e 0f 01 16 58 2b 0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 b8 30 00 8e c0 0f 20 c0 24 fe-0f 22 c0 eb 00 66 58 c3 ss:esp=01 80 00 00 20 28 00 00-00 00 3c 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 f8 03 00 00 00 07-00 00 9f 00 00 00 00 00 BTX halted I have verified my CD built from iso image (tried both i386 and AMD64 ) and could not figure out what the problem is. I have also disable all unrelated BIOS setting but still no luck. Hope someone will be able to help out. FYI, my system is: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ Memory: 1GB, Single Channel, 64-Bit, 2T Main Board: Abit NF-M2P Bios: v6.00PG NVMM: 4.071.0302/02/07 80GB Hard-drive. Thanks. Regards, Felix - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem Installing, BTX Halted
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:21:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Felix Toh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem Installing, BTX Halted To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi there, I am new to FreeBSD and trying to install a fresh FreeBSD OS to my computer. However, I am getting BTX error as below: Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER.. Found relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Consoles: internal video/keyboard int=000d err= efl=00030206 eip=2937 eax=8001 ebx=0700 ecx= edx=009f esi=0b3c edi= ebp= esp=03d2 cs=f000 ds=48ae es=4892 fs= gs= ss=9dbb cs=eip=2e 0f 01 16 58 2b 0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 b8 30 00 8e c0 0f 20 c0 24 fe-0f 22 c0 eb 00 66 58 c3 ss:esp=01 80 00 00 20 28 00 00-00 00 3c 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 f8 03 00 00 00 07-00 00 9f 00 00 00 00 00 BTX halted I have verified my CD built from iso image (tried both i386 and AMD64 ) and could not figure out what the problem is. I have also disable all unrelated BIOS setting but still no luck. Hope someone will be able to help out. FYI, my system is: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ Memory: 1GB, Single Channel, 64-Bit, 2T Main Board: Abit NF-M2P Bios: v6.00PG NVMM: 4.071.0302/02/07 80GB Hard-drive. Thanks. Regards, Felix I was having this issue too a while back. I replaced the CD-ROM with a new CD-ROM/DVD drive and now it works ok. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: BTX halted
-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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: esx 3.0.2 Update 1 and BTX halted
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:39:51PM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Has anyone in this list installed fbsd 6.2 or 6.3 to esx 3.0.2 update 1 ?(I have also tried esx 3.0.2 without update 1 and has taken the same error message). If yes have you done anything special for this system ? Yes, I have installed 6.2/amd64 and 6.3/amd64 on esx 3.0.x and esx 3.5, no special adjustments needed. As guest operating system I choose Other (64bit). On esx 3.0.2 I manually change Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod from 400 to 100 (default on 3.5) and set kern.hz=100 on the guest machines. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: esx 3.0.2 update1 BTX Halted issue
Hello It was my bad not to enable the VT feature of the CPU so esx wasn't supporting the 64 bit systems. This error is taken just because of that. Fixed the issue and now I can happily install fbsd amd64 to esx3.0.2 update1 Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 8:07:53 PM, you wrote: Hi, I am trying to install amd64 version of the freebsd 6.2 (also 6.3 gives the same error). After options presented in the loader whatever I choose ( safe mode, wo acpi...) it directly goes to BTX Halted mode. Has anyone in this list installed fbsd 6.2 or 6.3 to esx 3.0.2 update 1 ?(I have also tried esx 3.0.2 without update 1 and has taken the same error message). If yes have you done anything special for this system ? BTW: This system is upgraded from first 2.5.4 Regards. -- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.faruk.net -- Best regards, Omermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
esx 3.0.2 update1 BTX Halted issue
Hi, I am trying to install amd64 version of the freebsd 6.2 (also 6.3 gives the same error). After options presented in the loader whatever I choose ( safe mode, wo acpi...) it directly goes to BTX Halted mode. Has anyone in this list installed fbsd 6.2 or 6.3 to esx 3.0.2 update 1 ?(I have also tried esx 3.0.2 without update 1 and has taken the same error message). If yes have you done anything special for this system ? BTW: This system is upgraded from first 2.5.4 Regards. -- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.faruk.net -- Best regards, Omer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
esx 3.0.2 Update 1 and BTX halted
Hi, I am trying to install amd64 version of the freebsd 6.2 (also 6.3 gives the same error). After options presented in the loader whatever I choose ( safe mode, wo acpi...) it directly goes to BTX Halted mode. Has anyone in this list installed fbsd 6.2 or 6.3 to esx 3.0.2 update 1 ?(I have also tried esx 3.0.2 without update 1 and has taken the same error message). If yes have you done anything special for this system ? BTW: This system is upgraded from first 2.5.4 Regards. -- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.faruk.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX Halted error on FreeBSD 6 VMware Server
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I'm trying to install the latest FreeBSD boot cd on a VMware Server
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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?
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BTX Halted error on FreeBSD 6 VMware Server
I'm trying to install the latest FreeBSD boot cd on a VMware Server (running on CentOS). When I boot (whether it's option 1 or 2), I always get the same BTX Halted error. Is there something I need to disable before I can get VMware to play nicely with FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel D975XBX2 BTX Halted error
After experiencing overheating problems, I purchased a new CPU and motherboard Intel D975XBX2 which has a built in Raid controller Marvell 88SE61xx I installed my existing FreeBSD-STABLE drive I have tried disabling the secondary SATA Controller, but it says no boot devices available. My drive is connected to SATA port 0 I have tried configuring my ATA/IDE Mode as Native (the default) and Legacy. I have tried configuring SATA as IDE, AHCI, and RAID I have tried S.M.A.R.T both enabled and disabled. int=000d err= efl=00030086 eip=1526 eax=0110 ebx= ecx= edx=95200110 esi=3684 edi=36ac ebp=4eac esp=4e9a cs=cf00 ds=9b00 es=cf00 fs=9941 gs=9ac0 ss=9b00 sc:eip=2e 0f 01 16 8d 07 0f 20-c0 40 0f 22 c0 b8 08 00 8e e8 67 66 65 89 0a 0f-20 c0 48 0f 22 c0 66 58 ss:esp=10 01 00 00 c0 9a 20 95-00 00 ff ff 00 00 ac 36 84 36 d4 4e 6c 32 00 01-00 00 00 40 25 00 00 00 BTX halted Similar Posts: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/146146.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/146252.html Thanks in advance, Kirby ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel D975XBX2 BTX Halted error
On 9/21/07, Kirby Kuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After experiencing overheating problems, I purchased a new CPU and motherboard Intel D975XBX2 which has a built in Raid controller Marvell 88SE61xx I installed my existing FreeBSD-STABLE drive I've just installed FreeBSD-CURRENT on this motherboard yesterday without any problem, but I'm using one areca ARC-1231 not the onboard serial ata controller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marvell 88SE61xx (was: Re: Intel D975XBX2 - BTX halted)
Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:43:51 PM, Alexander Anderson wrote: Hello. I'm installing FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a brand new system with Intel D975XBX2 board. It seems that FreeBSD does not support the onboard Marvell 88SE6145 SATA controller. Could someone confirm this? At first, when I tried to boot the installation CD, the loader hung very early in the process with the message BTX halted. But when I went to the BIOS and disabled Secondary SATA controller (in Advanced, Peripheral Configuration), the CD booted and the install began alright. [snip] Now that I figured out what was causing the BTX halted error, I'm going to complete the installation, and then try to enable the Marvell controller back. Let's see if that works. No one seems to have replied ...but I'll draw the summary, anyway. The installation has completed successfully with Marvell 88SE6145 SATA RAID controller disabled. When I go to BIOS and enable it back, the system still boots, but dmesg shows no sign of Marvell's presence. I'm still not sure if the controller is just not configured correctly or if it is not supported under FreeBSD at all, however, I'm leaning towards the latter. Maybe I'll try asking in freebsd-hackers. Oh well, I guess I'll be looking for the second RAID controller on a PCI-X card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel D975XBX2 - BTX halted
Hello. I'm installing FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a brand new system with Intel D975XBX2 board. It seems that FreeBSD does not support the onboard Marvell 88SE6145 SATA controller. Could someone confirm this? At first, when I tried to boot the installation CD, the loader hung very early in the process with the message BTX halted. But when I went to the BIOS and disabled Secondary SATA controller (in Advanced, Peripheral Configuration), the CD booted and the install began alright. By the way, I did the BIOS upgrade (to version BX97520J.86A.2674), but that didn't help. Even though the board has another RAID controller (ICH7-R/ICH7-DH), I really would like to get both of them working. This system is going to be a server and I was going to hook up 6 hard drives to it: 2 as RAID1 and 4 as RAID5. Now that I figured out what was causing the BTX halted error, I'm going to complete the installation, and then try to enable the Marvell controller back. Let's see if that works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX Halted on 6.1 but not 5.4
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX Halted on 6.1 but not 5.4
I was trying to build a test machine so I could run something on 6.2 PR and keep abreast of the changes without updating a server I've pushed a little further than I should have ;-). I had an old Compaq Presario Athlon 900 that wasn't doing anything so I attempted to install using the 6.1 ISO. I found I could not get past a BTX Halted error even after disabling everything in BIOS that can be disabled, disabling ACPI and removing all the cards but the video. The board is quite proprietary and has no configuration options whatsoever. Researching this, I found several possibilities but none applied and I concluded there wasn't much that could be done to work around the problem. Then when I was about to give up, I noticed I still had an old 5.4 ISO in my stacks of disks. I popped it in and it sailed through. 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. Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boot2 - BTX halted, but loader(8) boots fine
I'm trying to bootstrap the system using boot2 directly (bypassing loader(8)) as described in the Admin Guide, in the Architecture Guide and in the boot(8) man page. I have 3 different kernels. However, no matter which kernel I choose at the boot prompt, I always get BTX halted. An example is reporduced below. - FreeBSD/i386 boot Default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: /boot/kernel/kernel int=0006 err= efl=00010002 eip=c0443c30 eax=c0443c30 ebx=c0a273c4 ecx=c0a273c4 edx=a020001e esi=0050 edi=c0443c30 ebp=2275 esp=0009eaf0 cs:eip=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ss:esp=69 95 00 00 00 00 00 80-1e 00 20 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-a0 dc 00 78 4b 09 00 00 BTX halted At this point I have to reboot with CTRL+ALT+DEL. Only the following registers change for 3 different kernels: eip = eax = edi, ebx = ecx, ebp. All other values do not change from one kernel to another. Bootstrapping with loader(8) works fine, I can load any kernel. I use FreeBSD 6.0-release on compaq armada 1700 laptop with BIOS dated 11/30/1999. I cannot find a newer BIOS version for this model. I've read several reports regarding BTX halted issue on old compaq. Most people report turing off UDMA or DMA in BIOS as a solution. I cannot see any DMA settings in my BIOS (I used Compaq Computer Setup for Portables, ver 2.01H dated 24 Jan 1999). I'm also not sure if it applies in my case as booting with loader(8) works with no problems. I had a look at srs/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S and I can see the point at which the code makes this dump. But lack of asm knowledge prevents me from getting any other information. Perhaps somebody can give me a clue of what's wrong based on the register values above? thanks anton - End forwarded message - -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boot(8) - BTX halted
Hello I'm trying to bootstrap the system using boot2 directly as described in the Admin Guide (3rd edition, 2004, section 2.3) and in the man page for boot(8), FreeBSD 6.0, dated 18/08/2005. However, no matter which kernel I choose at the boot prompt, I always get BTX halted error message with some memory(?) register values before. Bootstrapping with loader(8) works fine, I can load any kernel. What am I missing? I use FreeBSD 6.0-release on compaq armada 1700 laptop. I've read several reports when people cannot boot FreeBSD at all on compaq PC/laptops. The recommendations were to switch from UDMA to DMA in BIOS. As far as I can see with Compaq Setup for Portables, I use DMA. thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boot without loader(8) - BTX halted
I can boot fine with loader(8). However if I try to load kernel directly from boot(8) I always get BTX halted no matter which kernel and options I choose. The only command that works is the loader itself, /boot/loader. Why? man 8 loader says that BTX client is the name of the loader on i386. So does BTX halted error message mean that loader(8) is still called, even though it was supposed to be bypassed? I compiled the hints statically to the kernel because my understanding is that if loader(8) is bypassed then /boot/device.hints cannot be read. Is that correct? I use 6.0-release on compaq armada 1700 laptop. thanks anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[UPDATE] Re: BTX halted
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX halted
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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted
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). WBR -- Boris B. Samorodov, Research Engineer InPharmTech Co, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet Service Provider ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX halted
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 On it all stops. What to do? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX halted with a flashcard usb plugged
Hello I m using a fresh new install of freebsd 6.0, on sata disk. I have a btx halted error every time i boot with a usb flashcard plugged. BTX loader 1.00 BTX version 1.01 Consoles Internal video/keyboard Bios drive A: is disk0 int=000derr=efl=00030002eip=2aca eax=ebx=ecx=0001edx=0001 esi=edi=8609ebp=esp=03f6 cs=f000 ds= es=f000 fs= gs= ss=9e3b btx halted I have tryed with 2 different usb: 1/ umass0: vendor 0x13fe USB Disk 2.0, rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2 da0 at umass0-sim0 bug 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB DISK 2.0 PMAP Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 Device da0: 40.000MB/s Transfers da0: 240MB (492544 512 byte/sectors: 64H 32S/T 240C) 2/ umass0: vendor 0x0457 USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2 da0 at umass0-sim0 bug 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Ut161 USB2FlashStorage 0.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 Device da0: 40.000MB/s Transfers da0: 480MB (983808 512 byte/sectors: 64H 32S/T 480C) USB flash plugged: BTX Halted USB flash unplugged: freebsd boot fine Boot order: hd, then usb hd. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX Halted - not such a newbie question
I'm having problems installing FreeBSD V6.0 on an HP (ne Compaq) desktop PC. The install appears to go fine from CD, or via FTP, but on rebooting the installed boot loader halts with a register dump and BTX halted error message. So no rotating curser, no kernel messages just the dump and error message. Now I've been using FreeBSD for years, so immediately think Disc Geometry problems - enable / disable DMA etc. Nope, I've tried the various BIOS settings and manually setting the geometry in fdisk. I've also tried changing the boot manager for a dedicated MBR. Here are the BIOS settings I have tried: Transfer Mode: Max UDMA, Ultra DMA 0, Enhanced DMA, Max PIO, PIO 0 Translation Mode: Bit Shift, LBA Assisted and User Defined [1023/240/63] Here is the spec of my machine: Spec: Compaq Workstation xw6000 Proc: P4 2.8GHz RAM: 1024MB HD: 80.0GB, Maxtor 6Y080L0 (Primary IDE master) Most onboard devices (USB, Serial, etc) have been disabled. Any help appreciated Joy --- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/192 - Release Date: 05-Dec-05 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[BTX Halted] Install FreeBSD revision 5.3 on SCSI HDD
Dear sir : I can't install FreeBSD revision 5.3 on SCSI HDD. Configuration : 1. Intel chipset CanterWood + Hance Rapids 2. Intel CPU 478 3. Unbuffer DDR memory 256MB 4. SCSI card(both LSI Adaptec) with one Hard disk drive 5. Legacy CD-ROM Boot from CD-ROM(FreeBSD 5.3) to install FreeBSD into SCSI HDD. No matter plug SCSI card to PCI-X slot or PCI slot. Here's the error : Boot from CD: CD Loader 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT /LOADER ... Found : - I can't see the message clearly ! int=000d err=000 efl=00010046 eip=90db eax=0011 ebx=0700 ecx= edx=0080 esi=000c edi= ebp= esp=1800 cs=0008 ds= es= fs= gs= ss=0010 cs:eip=0f 01 15 d0 96 00 00 66 - ea e8 90 18 00 b1 20 8e d1 8e d9 8e c1 8e e1 8e - e9 48 0f 22 c0 ea fd 90 ss:esp=0a 69 6e 74 3d 30 30 30 - 30 30 30 30 64 20 20 65 72 72 3d 30 30 30 30 30 - 30 30 30 20 20 65 66 6c BTX halted Loop the red text ! I have no idea what the loader doing at this time. Could you have some information can provide to me ? Many thanks ! Best Regards, Phoenix Chang AsusTek COMPUTER INC. Tel: 886-2-28943447 Ext: 3008 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: BTX halted
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 -- bsam ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted
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. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted
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 -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted
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 -- bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted
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 -- ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: BTX halted
The first advice I would give is, go and trying flashing your BIOS with an updated version. Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India -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 -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
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]
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 -- ___ 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]
Re: BTX halted on backup server
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] mailto:[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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgpiKVMFjAyoA.pgp Description: PGP signature
BTX halted on backup server
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] mailto:[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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX Halted from 5.2.1 CD, MS-9211 1U Rackmount Server
As soon as my machine boots off the CD, I get a memory dump of some sort followed by BTX Halted ... Boot from CD: CD Loader 1.01 Building the boot loader arguments Looking 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 int=000d err= efl=00030046 eip=9066 eax=00f8 ebx=2820 ecx= edx=08ee esi=9701 edi=1f98 ebp=00a0 esp=1800 cs= ds= es=fs= gs= ss= cs:eip=0f 01 1e d6 96 0f 01 16-d0 96 0f 20 c0 66 83 c8 01 0f 22 c0 ea 7f 90 08-00 31 c9 b1 10 8e d1 b1 ss:esp=0a 69 6e 74 3d 30 30 30-30 30 30 30 64 20 20 65 72 72 3d 30 30 30 30 30-30 30 30 20 20 65 66 6c BTX Halted Sometimes this BTX Halt only happens once and hangs the system, other times it dumps this info to my screen over and over in an infinite loop. Only a power down stops it. I've come across TONS of articles/discussions with the same problem but none of their suggestions have worked. I've verified that I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard, but it does not have a Virtual boot device to disable. I forced my IDEs to use PIO as suggested in one discussion, no worky. I've disabled all unneeded items in the BIOS, including unused IDE channels, USB, onboard LAN, still no fix. I've verified that my RAID drivers work with 5.2.1 as seen in other dicussions. I've verified the MD5 of this 5.2.1 disk before burning, and I've also used this very CD to install on another machine with no problems. The 5.1 and 4.10 CDs boot just fine. My system: MSI P1-1000 1U Rackmount http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=376 Motherboard says: MS-9129 Ver 1 BIOS Version: W9211MS v1.0 121002 19:07:50 RAID BIOS: MB FastTrack Lite 2.00.1030.27 256MB PC266 RAM IDE1 Master: NONE IDE1 Slave : NONE IDE2 Master: CD-ROM (Mitsumi SR244W1) IDE2 Slave : NONE ATA Raid: (2) Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 40GB configured as RAID1 Mirror. Please Help! Any ideas? Thanks, -j ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX HALTED!!! I can't get this rocket in the air
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 have an AMD ATHLON XP SYSTEM I am installing this on. I reformatted the hard drive with the NTFS file system. I will continue to search for documentation on this. My goal is to get this operating system installed. And have a few nice applications installed. Slowly but surely familiarize with various aspects. I know with this op you need to have a lot more knowledge than with Windows. You need to know more settings and configurations to different things. Once I dial it all in I will feel I have climbed mount everest!! Thanks. Jerry in Corning CA. freeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader Revision 1.1 1. Boot Free BSD (Default) 2. Boot Free BSD with ACPI disabled 3. Boot Free BSD in Safe Mode 4. Boot Free BSD in single user mode 5. Boot Free BSD with verbose logging 6. Escape to loader prompt 7. Reboot THEN COMES; BTX HALTED ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX HALTED!!! I can't get this rocket in the air
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX HALTED!!! I can't get this rocket in the air
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 -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4.9R - BTX HALTED problem - my solution
After reading an agonizing thread in freebsd-hackers from back in 2000 with no solution in layman's terms, this is how I got this to work. My system: Celeron 1.7Ghz MSI MS6526 v2 mobo (Intel arch, apparently this and/or the bios is the problem) WD 40GB HDD The problem: After doing a new cd install using the sysinstall menu's as I normally do this machine failed to boot. All I had to go on was a bunch of technical garbage and the message BTX HALTED. The solution: Boot with the install cd Select Standard Install In fdisk, as suggested in the freebsd-hackers thread, I tried altering the disk geometry to what my BIOS sees. That has never worked for me. Nonetheless, I did try it. Fdisk just complains and reverts back to what fdisk sees. Create one Slice or select A Select F for dd mode, select yes when prompted. Make the freebsd slice bootable with S Quit fdisk with Q At the Disklabel part of the install select A I didn't like the setup so I deleted all and recreated my scheme. Quit disklabel with Q When prompted for the boot manager I chose Standard (no boot manager) The install continued and viola, the box booted normally. Hopes this helps. Regards, Keith ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX Halted by lsdev
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX Halted by lsdev
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 Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted
JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did you use to install from? CD ROM - ISO CD 1 Where did you get it from? ftp13.freebsd.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 12:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted Just an update: -OS is installed, this is not during installation. In the BIOS: -Boot virus detection is disabled -Power Management/APM is now disabled -Did not see any PNP settings Any ideas now? - Original Message - From: Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted int=0006 err= elf=000110246 eip=811e7525... .etc.. ss: estp=25 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff-eb 1f 9d 46 01 50 53 68 BTX halted This happens right on bootup. This is a fresh install of 4.9 Release. Any ideas? Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted
So you downloaded to .iso file from the FBSD FTP site. Did you check the CHECKSUM hash value of your downloaded file to the official CHECKSUM hash value from FTP site to verify you have good .iso file? Just because your download did not terminate does not mean you have good file. You could have installed your system with bad file and that is why it will not boot. Download again and this time verify CHECKSUM hash values so you know it's good before you burn it to CD. Reinstall again you have nothing to lose. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did you use to install from? CD ROM - ISO CD 1 Where did you get it from? ftp13.freebsd.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 12:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted Just an update: -OS is installed, this is not during installation. In the BIOS: -Boot virus detection is disabled -Power Management/APM is now disabled -Did not see any PNP settings Any ideas now? - Original Message - From: Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted int=0006 err= elf=000110246 eip=811e7525... .etc.. ss: estp=25 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff-eb 1f 9d 46 01 50 53 68 BTX halted This happens right on bootup. This is a fresh install of 4.9 Release. Any ideas? Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted
Just an update: -OS is installed, this is not during installation. In the BIOS: -Boot virus detection is disabled -Power Management/APM is now disabled -Did not see any PNP settings Any ideas now? - Original Message - From: Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted int=0006 err= elf=000110246 eip=811e7525... .etc.. ss: estp=25 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff-eb 1f 9d 46 01 50 53 68 BTX halted This happens right on bootup. This is a fresh install of 4.9 Release. Any ideas? Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted
What did you use to install from? Where did you get it from? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 12:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted Just an update: -OS is installed, this is not during installation. In the BIOS: -Boot virus detection is disabled -Power Management/APM is now disabled -Did not see any PNP settings Any ideas now? - Original Message - From: Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: 4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted int=0006 err= elf=000110246 eip=811e7525... .etc.. ss: estp=25 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff-eb 1f 9d 46 01 50 53 68 BTX halted This happens right on bootup. This is a fresh install of 4.9 Release. Any ideas? Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4.9R Bootup Failure - BTX halted
int=0006 err= elf=000110246 eip=811e7525... .etc.. ss: estp=25 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff-eb 1f 9d 46 01 50 53 68 BTX halted This happens right on bootup. This is a fresh install of 4.9 Release. Any ideas? Thank you! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted
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. --- Mark atkin901 at NOSPAM yahoo dot com (!wired)?(coffee++):(wired); ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted
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). ris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BTX halted
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. -- Roger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX halted
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. So I plugged the old hard drive in and tried to boot up. I got a screen dump: 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 So I took the drive back to its original box, booted up with no problem, recompiled the kernel with *both* i586 and i686 in the CPU type section, booted up again to make sure it worked. Took it back to the other box -- same problem. BTX halted. Took it back to the original box and recompiled as GENERIC. Booted up to make sure it worked, took it back to the other box -- same problem. I've done a google search without finding anything that helps. Can anyone suggest a solution? I can boot up with a floppy and run the fixit disk on the new box, so I may end up just wiping the disk and making a clean install, but if I can preserve the working system it would be nice. Also, I would have to install over ftp, which takes quite a while. -- Roger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halted when installing on a HP Proliant DL360 G3
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another Compaq EVO D510 BTX halted case
Hi all, the subject says it all: I got this nice quiet Compaq EVO D510 Convertible Mini Tower on my desk and tried to install FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on it so it would match the other machines here and got immedeately stuck while booting from CDROM with a BTX halted case. Google found the suggestion to switch to Max PIO and turn of DMA: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030110114315.GA38226_kollerie.com%40ns.sol.net Unfortunately this does not work for me and leads to this (5.1-RELEASE): | int=000d err= efl=00030246 eip=2c13 eax=203c ebx=0004 ecx=2000 edx=246b esi=08d5 edi=0006088c ebp=1538 esp=1502 cs=f000 ds=ee00 es=ee00fs= gs= ss=ee00 cs:eip=0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75 08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75 ss:esp=8c 08 06 00 d5 08 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00 04 00 00 00 6b 24 00 00-04 00 00 00 3c 24 00 00 BTX halted This is the system configuration: Compaq EVO D510 Convertible Mini Tower P4 2000 MHz 256 MB RAM CDROM in the Compaq Multibay slot, recognized by the boot loader as cd0. Tried FreeBSD versions showing this problem where: 4.7 4.8 5.0-RELEASE 5.1-RELEASE Anybody got a hint for me? I'm really stuck here... Thank you in advance, Johannes Lochmann ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTX Halted and Fatal Trap 12 errors on older machine
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... 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? Thanks, Trying hard to use freebsd... Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: BTX Halted and Fatal Trap 12 errors on older machine
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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Work-Around for 'BTX Halted' issue ... does one exist?
The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a server (Tyan L-ET MB, Adaptec 2000s controller, FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE) that started to give me a BTX Halted error message ... so far, I haven't been able to find a solution to the problem ... is there some way of booting the server off of floppies, maybe? I'm going to keep it inhouse, as I don't mind having to do a little work to get it rebooted, but would really prefer to keep FreeBSD on it if I can ... ? Booting off floppies is pretty easy; you can even set them up to not need manual intervention by setting up loader.conf... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Work-Around for 'BTX Halted' issue ... does one exist?
G'day all ...
I have a server (Tyan L-ET MB, Adaptec 2000s controller, FreeBSD
4.7-STABLE) that started to give me a BTX Halted error message ... so far,
I haven't been able to find a solution to the problem ... is there some
way of booting the server off of floppies, maybe? I'm going to keep it
inhouse, as I don't mind having to do a little work to get it rebooted,
but would really prefer to keep FreeBSD on it if I can ... ?
Help?
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BTX halted error with Tyan Thunder L-ET Adaptec 0Channel RAID
Evening ...
Everything I can find in relation to BTX + FreeBSD seems to revolve
around the Compaq servers, and the recommended solution is to disable BIOS
DMA ...
Well, the Tyan Thunder L-ET doesn't seem to have such an option in the
BIOS, so I'm at a lose as to what to try ... I've upgraded (and tried to
downgrade) the BIO, but that doesn't seem to have helped any ...
When in teh BIOS, the bottom says AMI BIOs v2.02 w/ Copyright from 2000
... but I can't find an upgrade for that anywhere?
Do I have a Win/Linux only server? :( Or is there something else I can
try?
Thanks ...
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BTX halted message on Tyan Thunder motherboard ...
Yesterday, trying to resolve a problem, we upgraded the BIOs to 1.07, after which we started to get the BTX halted message above ... searching the web, I've not found much in the way of solution, but the one I did see talked about disabling teh BIOS DMA, in relation to a Compaq server, or downgrading teh BIOs ... since we can't find a BIOS DMA setting in the Tyan BIOS, we went with downgrading back to 1.06 ... ... but we're still getting it ... I'm running 4.7-STABLE on this server, with one of teh Adaptec ZCR controllers ... is there something else we should try? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 - Compaq Evo D510 CMT - BTX Halted
I tried to install FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 on a Compaq Evo D510 Convertible MiniTower and that succeeded without any problems. However when the machine is booted after the installation I got a BTX halted message. In order to solve this I tried to find a solution in the FreeBSD manual/FAQ and the email archives. Based on the information that I found I tried the following things with, unfortunately, the same result: - A reinstall of FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 on a Dangerously Dedicated disk. - A bios upgrade from version 2.14 to 3.12 - An install of FreeBSD 4.7 Release to verify whether it was a problem specific to FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 Eventually I came across a solution posted by Paul Saab to freebsd-smp on June 27th 2002, in which he recommended turning off DMA in the BIOS, for a similar problem Craigrm of Coreix Systems was experiencing on a Compaq Evo D500: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=25904+0+archive/2002/freebsd-smp/20020630.freebsd-smp To see if this would also work for my Compaq Evo D510 I changed the following setting in my BIOS: - Storage | Device Configuration | Hard Disk | IDE Primary 0 - Changed Transfer Mode from Max DMA to Max PIO This time FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 booted up successfully! To see if the other DMA settings exhibited the same problem as Max DMA I also tried: - Enhanced DMA - Ultra DMA 0 Unfortunately they resulted in the same BTX Halted message upon booting. Only Max PIO seems to work! I am not sure if this is a problem on all Compaq Evo Dxxx PCs, but at least it seems to work for the D500 and the D510. Should this be a trouble shooting/FAQ entry? BTW. Some one (see link below) reported that a BIOS downgrade on his Evo 500 (D500?) from version 3.01 to version 2.06 also solved the BTX halted problem. Apparently Compaq has done something strange in the newwer versions of their BIOS' for their Compaq Evo line of PC's. Only available from Google cache: http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:lZq2sNTvoqsC:opax.swin.edu.au/~garmitage/things/freebsdEVO500-062902.html+BTX+Compaq+Evo+Armitagehl=enlr=lang_nl|lang_enie=UTF-8 Anyway hope this helps other people that are trying to install FreeBSD on a Compaq Evo Dxxx PC. -- Guido msg14956/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
My 1 cent :BTX halted error
Hi, guys. I am writing this for those of us who experienced(experiencing) dreaded BTX halted error. Tonight, I decided to upgrade my aging 4.3 stable system to shiny new 4.7 system. I been doing cvsup but neglected to do major upgrade and I found out I couldn't do 4.7 upgrade from 4.3. Since I did not have another box with 4.7 on it to build kernel and move it over to questioned system, I blissfully downloaded and burned 4.7 stable iso. Pop that baby into it and proceed to upgrade. Everything went to normal (I read INSTALL.TXT three times before upgrade, especially upgrade section). Sysinstall told me to get the cd out and reboot. I did. Up comes 4.7? NOT! int= err= efl=00030046 eip=09c4 eax=f000 ebx=0102 ecx= edx=0580 esi=7d91 edi=0005 ebp=03f6 esp=095f cs=f000 ds=f000 es=1400 fs= gs= ss=f000 cs:eip=2e 0f 01 16 08 0a 0f 20-c0 83 c8 01 0f 22 c0 ea ss:esp=61 09 bc 67 09 09 bc 00-69 09 bc 6f 09 09 31 00 BTX halted It stared at me like demon from hell. Maybe some of you gurus could chuckle and solve this in a heartbeat, but I am fairly newbie and I was horrified. Fortunately, I keep my e-mail on another box with W2K which keeps my freebsd-questions mailing lists. I did quick search and found the mail written by Matthew Seaman at Sep 30th, 2002 ( Subject: Re: BTX halted ). In it, he said to load installation CD and boot the machine, interrupt the boot sequence at Press space to interrupt ... sign and issue these commands at ok prompt unload lsdev set currdev=[your hard drive name from lsdev] load kernel boot ( *Be sure to select correct disk for it. You should have your mount command output written or printed on your desk before doing any upgrade. In my case, I knew that first slice of disk is root partition mounted as /. So I choose very first disk1 subentry from lsdev. Yours may vary so take note. ) Well, that booted the system and all my entries on /etc has been preserved which was nice, but I had this nagging feeling that problem has not been solved, so I booted again with CD out. Same s**t again! I then proceed to do boot -s. I performed fsck -f, then reboot. Another s**t again! I booted into the system and reestablished Internet connection. I checked the handbook from www.freebsd.org and found this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html In it, I have found this entry to restore your MBR using this method: fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 Mine is IDE, hence ad0, if yours are SCSI, use appropriate device name. Voila! System boots! ( without CD ) This has been fun(?) experience. Hopefully, my pointless rant could help someone else out there with this same problem. Again, many thanks to Matthew Seaman for being a such a helping hand to this newbie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Fwd: Re[2]: BTX halted
Hi,
Monday, September 30, 2002, 6:28:12 PM, you wrote:
I think this is SCSI device settle problem,
since default boot has been set up from CD and SCSI ID 0 and disk
SCSI ID is 4. Before FreeBSD installation MS NT was working on this
computer. After installation FreeBSD, it doesnt start kernel boot but
it has found disk and has do partitions. is it possible setting up
SCSI device during installion?!? I have tried all installaion
procedure but I couldn't found any setting I belive that SCSI
contoller isnt work properly. Also maybe FreeBSD hasn't got drive of this
controler?!?!
Tekram DC - 390F PCI SCSI controller
BIOS version V3.20 date 1999-3-29
disk is Quantum Atlas SCSI HD
another error had depend on partition I understant but SCSý problem
going on. Now it give such kind of error
maounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
/stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0
page fault
syncing disk
done
uptime 21 sn
reboot--
During my search I've found such URL consist of some error code and
linux kernel...
http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Feb/1489.html
http://www.saclug.org/archive/2000/07/0332.html
especially such URL same as my problems
http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Feb/0975.html
I decided to this SCSI controller has got some problems about unix and
derivatives... :( I couldn't kernel compile in FreeBSD ...
I wonder I am wrong? can you advice me?
I have done your previous advice during lsdev it couldn't found any
device and than founded 12 different kernel error.
MS 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?
MS That's the boot loader crashing. That's pretty severe. In principal,
MS given the crashdump you've printed out, it should be possible to go
MS into the loader code and work out what was happening at that point,
MS but you'ld probably have to ask on freebsd-hackers to find someone
MS with the skills to do that.
MS This could be one of a number of problems --- disk hardware failure,
MS problems with the BIOS, wrong disk geometry. It's unlikely to be
MS anything to do with the NICs.
MS One problem, and the first thing to check, is something that used to
MS be fairly common until sysinstall was modified to remove the
MS temptation to use such things. Dangerously dedicated disks sound
MS pretty cool to the uninitiated, but beware: many SCSI
MS controllers/bioses can't cope with them. Unfortunately, the only
MS solution if you've installed your system this way is to go back to the
MS beginning and start all over again, and this time, install a proper
MS partition table.
MS If that isn't the case, can you verify that you can boot using the
MS boot blocks from the installation media (I assume CD Rom)?
MS Use this procedure:
MS Start to boot the system from the CD. When you get the 10 second
MS count down, hit the space bar to interrupt. You should end up at
MS the boot: prompt.
MS Now type:
MS unload
MS lsdev
MS This will either generate a BTX dump (in which case, you've
MS probably got pretty bad hardware problems) or it should show you a
MS list of all potential boot devices, including your hard drive. Now
MS type:
MS set currdev={harddrive} (ie. what lsdev returned for your HD)
MS load kernel
MS boot
MS and you should end up with a running system.
MS If that whole rigmarole worked, then the problem is that somehow the
MS boot blocks on your hard drive have become scrambled, and you can
MS probably repair things by reinstalling them.
MS If it didn't work and you're not using dangerously dedicated disks,
MS then you've got really nasty trouble lowlevel trouble which will take
MS time, effort and probably the services of a FreeBSD guru to sort out.
MS Cheers,
MS Matthew
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Re[2]: BTX halted
Hi,
Monday, September 30, 2002, 6:28:12 PM, you wrote:
I think this is SCSI device settle problem,
since default boot has been set up from CD and SCSI ID 0 and disk
SCSI ID is 4. Before FreeBSD installation MS NT was working on this
computer. After installation FreeBSD, it doesnt start kernel boot but
it has found disk and has do partitions. is it possible setting up
SCSI device during installion?!? I have tried all installaion
procedure but I couldn't found any setting I belive that SCSI
contoller isnt work properly. Also maybe FreeBSD hasn't got drive of this
controler?!?!
Tekram DC - 390F PCI SCSI controller
BIOS version V3.20 date 1999-3-29
disk is Quantum Atlas SCSI HD
another error had depend on partition I understant but SCSý problem
going on. Now it give such kind of error
maounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
/stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0
page fault
syncing disk
done
uptime 21 sn
reboot--
During my search I've found such URL consist of some error code and
linux kernel...
http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Feb/1489.html
http://www.saclug.org/archive/2000/07/0332.html
especially such URL same as my problems
http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Feb/0975.html
I decided to this SCSI controller has got some problems about unix and
derivatives... :( I couldn't kernel compile in FreeBSD ...
I wonder I am wrong? can you advice me?
I have done your previous advice during lsdev it couldn't found any
device and than founded 12 different kernel error.
MS 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?
MS That's the boot loader crashing. That's pretty severe. In principal,
MS given the crashdump you've printed out, it should be possible to go
MS into the loader code and work out what was happening at that point,
MS but you'ld probably have to ask on freebsd-hackers to find someone
MS with the skills to do that.
MS This could be one of a number of problems --- disk hardware failure,
MS problems with the BIOS, wrong disk geometry. It's unlikely to be
MS anything to do with the NICs.
MS One problem, and the first thing to check, is something that used to
MS be fairly common until sysinstall was modified to remove the
MS temptation to use such things. Dangerously dedicated disks sound
MS pretty cool to the uninitiated, but beware: many SCSI
MS controllers/bioses can't cope with them. Unfortunately, the only
MS solution if you've installed your system this way is to go back to the
MS beginning and start all over again, and this time, install a proper
MS partition table.
MS If that isn't the case, can you verify that you can boot using the
MS boot blocks from the installation media (I assume CD Rom)?
MS Use this procedure:
MS Start to boot the system from the CD. When you get the 10 second
MS count down, hit the space bar to interrupt. You should end up at
MS the boot: prompt.
MS Now type:
MS unload
MS lsdev
MS This will either generate a BTX dump (in which case, you've
MS probably got pretty bad hardware problems) or it should show you a
MS list of all potential boot devices, including your hard drive. Now
MS type:
MS set currdev={harddrive} (ie. what lsdev returned for your HD)
MS load kernel
MS boot
MS and you should end up with a running system.
MS If that whole rigmarole worked, then the problem is that somehow the
MS boot blocks on your hard drive have become scrambled, and you can
MS probably repair things by reinstalling them.
MS If it didn't work and you're not using dangerously dedicated disks,
MS then you've got really nasty trouble lowlevel trouble which will take
MS time, effort and probably the services of a FreeBSD guru to sort out.
MS Cheers,
MS Matthew
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BTX Halted
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 ? Regards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
