BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM
Miroslav Lachman
000.fbsd at quip.cz
Sun Jan 21 16:56:34 UTC 2007
Peter Losher wrote:
> I have a Matushita based USB CD/DVD-ROM drive that I have been using to
> install FreeBSD with for the better part of the last year. I just took
> delivery yesterday of both a HP Proliant 1450 G3 and a generic 1U server
> based on a Tyan Tomcat i845GV S3098 MB.
>
> In both cases, once the USB CD-ROM started loading either 6.1 or 6.2, I
> get a BTX halt:
>
> -=-
> from CD : CD Loader 1.2
>
> Building the boot loader arguments
> Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> Relocating the loader and the BTX
> Starting the BTX loader
>
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
> Consoles: internal video/keyboard
>
> int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030206 eip=000037d0
> eax=00008001 ebx=00000000 ecx=a3900001 edx=0000009f
> esi=00000b32 edi=00000000 ebp=00000000 esp=000003d2
> cs=f000 ds=3eca es=3eac fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=97fc
> cs:eip=2e 0f 01 16 f8 38 0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 b8 30
> 00 8e c0 0f 20 c0 24 fe-0f 22 c0 eb 00 66 58 c3
> ss:esp=01 80 00 00 db 36 00 00-00 00 32 0b 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 f8 03 00 00 00 00-00 00 9f 00 00 00 01 00
> BTX halted
> -=-
>
> Opening up the cases and plugging in a EIDE CD-ROM, the installer CD's
> work just fine. So it looks like perhaps there is some new BIOS
> instruction set that's causing the BTX loader some pain with a USB device.
>
> Anyone encounter similar issues recently?
>
> Best Wishes - Peter
Hi,
this is well known problem discussed a few months ago:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-November/030897.html
sterted at semptember
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-qa/2006-September/000783.html
Partial fix could be to use GRUB (it helps me on Sun, but does not help
on HP servers)
Miroslav Lachman
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