BTX HALTED boot fail on sun fire 4140.

Zaphod Beeblebrox zbeeble at gmail.com
Sun Jul 31 18:40:09 UTC 2016


Some more information here.  10.3-RELEASE and 11.0-BETA1 memory stick
images both fail.  I'm attaching a screen shot of the 11.0-BETA1 boot.



On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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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