kern/63731: PATA to SATA converter on Promise 20375 causes "BTX halted" during install

[Joe Votour]

The following reply was made to PR kern/63731; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joe Votour <vulturej at vulturesnest.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, joevph at yahoo.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/63731: PATA to SATA converter on Promise 20375 causes "BTX
 halted" during install
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:44:56 -0800

 It turns out that booting from floppies and doing the install seems to 
 work.  Also, if I switch the order of the drives around, it seems to 
 work from the CD, making me suspect that BTX doesn't like something on 
 the hard drive I'm trying to install FreeBSD to.  Unfortunately, I 
 haven't figured out what.
 
 Using the boot floppies has it's own set of challenges, however (DHCP 
 doesn't seem to work with my Intel NIC, using the fxp0 driver - but 
 that's another issue).
 
 -- Joe
 
 
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