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: 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
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: BTX Halted error on FreeBSD 6 VMware Server
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:31:09 -0700
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I'm trying to install the latest FreeBSD boot cd on a VMware Server
(running on CentOS).
works fine here (i have several FBSD 6 VMs under VMWare Server 1.0x under
Centos 4.4 and Centos 5) can you please be more specific, what is the exact
version + date of the latest FreeBSD boot cd you are using?
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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]
[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]
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]
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: 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
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]
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]
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]
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]
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
