BTX HALTED boot fail on sun fire 4140.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Right now my priority is a hack that will leave the server running.  It's a
Sunday on a holiday weekend.  Not a lot of hardware options.  Can I
contrive a CD/DVD or memory stick to make it boot?

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2016-07-31 14:40, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> > 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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>
> It is getting so far as to find the drives before it crashes, so that
> likely means something. You'll need someone smarter than me to help you
> debug that thought.
>
> You might try building a copy of the loader with the compile time debug
> options turned on.
>
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> Allan Jude
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