i386/53203: "BTX halted" when attempting install of 5.1-RELEASE from CD-ROM on HP Proliant DL360 G3

[David Landgren]

>Number:         53203
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       "BTX halted" when attempting install of 5.1-RELEASE from CD-ROM on HP Proliant DL360 G3
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 11 07:30:16 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Landgren
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.1 i386
>Organization:
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>Environment:
FreeBSD 5.1 i386 CD-ROM ISO disk 1
	Hewlett Packard HP Proliant DL360 G3
	Pentium Xeon 2.4GHz
	3.5Gb RAM
	2x18Gb SCSI Ultra 320 15000 rpm disks mounted in RAID-1
	Smart Array 5i Controller on IRQ 3, BIOS version 1.92
	BIOS: Proliant System BIOS - P31 (03/01/2003)

>Description:
	When booting of the CD-ROM, the following output appears (transcribed
	screen => paper => send-pr), hence not guaranteed 100% accurate:

Miniboot 5.1
Attempting Boot From CD-ROM
CD Loader 1.01

Building the boot loader arguments
Lookup up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader

BTX Loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0

inf=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030006
[...register dump details omitted...]
BTX halted

The machine needs to powered off at this point. I have also tried booting from the
miniloader ISO, as well as 4.8-RELEASE, all with the same results. I trawled the
archives and learnt that people had similar problems with Compaq hardware, and the
solution to the problem involved creating an MS-DOS partition on the disk beforehand.

I did this, but it did not result in any change.

I also tried booting from an OpenBSD 3.3 installation CD-ROM. The boot loader started
correctly, but at the Install/Upgrade prompt, pressing I resulted in the message "No
disks found".

The machines were delivered with a piece of paper reporting that HP have changed the
disks used in this equipment, that they are now using U320 SCSI drives.

The FreeBSD i386 system running at testdrive.hp.com is only a DL360 G2 running 4.8,
hence no comparison available there.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Power on
	Insert CD-ROM
	wait

>Fix:
	I don't know
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: