BTX HALTED boot fail on sun fire 4140.

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Sun Jul 31 18:15:03 UTC 2016


On 2016-07-31 12:40, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> The Sun Fire 4140 is a dual opteron machine.  I'm getting BTX Halted and a
> processor register dump right after it prints the /boot/config -Dp (nothing
> else printed).
> 
> Is there any value in trying the -current boot files to boot the 10.3
> host?  Are they newer?
> 
> This happened as I tried to move the drives from an older failing host into
> the sun.
> 
> The sun will boot a CD/DVD.  Can I make a DVD that will boot zfs on hard
> drives?
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There is a lot of new stuff in the 11 boot blocks, so definitely worth a
try.

The CD/DVD images use 'loader' by default, not 'zfsloader'

-- 
Allan Jude

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