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

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 08 August 2008 01:04:16 pm Jonas Lund wrote:
> (Copy of my old message from a few months ago is below the dotted line)
> The motherboard in my case is an EPIA EN12000EG
> The RR card is in a box now and i could send it somewhere if someone
> wants to experiment.
> The Motherboard is still in use tho.

This is quite a different error.  The recent changes to BTX may possible 
resolve this for you if the BIOS was buggy when called from vm86 mode.

> ---------------------------------
> The 6.2-Release-i386-bootonly.iso installer never gets past the BTX
> loader when the RocketRaid 1720 card is installed. Removing the card
> makes the boot process work.
> 
> HighPoint claims compability with 6.x (6.2 is listed at their page)
> with a binary driver. However as the driver never has the chance to be
> loaded i have no idea.
> 
> The error is the following.
> 
> int=0000 000D err=0 efl=0003 0213 eip=0000 FFFF
> eax=0000 FFFF EBX=0000 0700 ecx=edx=0
> esi=0000 03d8 edi=0000 ffd4 ebp=0000 FFFF esp=0000 ffd6
> cs=d800 ds=es=9350 fs=gs=0 ss=9350
> cs:eip = fffff ........... ffff (all fff...)
> ss:esp = ffff ........... ffff (as above)
> BTX HALTED
> 



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John Baldwin