IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop - Need help booting recompiled kernel so i can install

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:44:58PM +0200, Jonas Lund wrote:
> BTX is the "new" bootloader that works in 32bit (it's actually been in
> for a few releases now). So the kernel has nothing to do with this.
> 
> I originally subscribed to this list for an almost identical problem.
> With my rocketraid somethingsomething PCI-SATA2 card with disks
> connected crashes the BTX loader. Connecting the disks to the internal
> via epia motherboard solved the problem (I'm using gmirror raid now as
> apperantly the rocketraid card was just some software thing anyhow).
> 
> I have a feeling that it might be some combinations of BTX, BIOS and
> RAID firmware that causes these crashes. FreeBSD being a marginal OS
> the BTX code just has a chance of triggering odd corner case being a
> 32bit loader.
> 
> I haven't kept up with linux but last i checked they use a 16bit
> bootloader unless the distro has migrated to grub. (Remembering
> correctly GRUB also crashed on my setup like btx).
> Never tried booting windows on my setup.

Please be aware of the following CVS commit, which was 4 months ago
(look at the top 3 commits shown, for RELENG_[467] branches):

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/Makefile

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