HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 12 20:29:21 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 12 March 2008 03:28:51 pm Ivan Voras wrote:
> On 12/03/2008, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 March 2008 07:22:14 am Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
> >  > One more addition: I needed to use sys/extipl boot loader instead of 
the
> >  > standard one.
> >
> >  That should be fixed with the latest BTX btw.
> 
> I haven't followed the BTX thread closely, but from what I remember it
> was about not crashing in BTX (with a register-dump) when calling BIOS
> from vm86 mode (or the other way around). This is not the problem I
> had with two of my Proliant machines - my problems were that the BTX
> couldn't locate the next-stage loader - choosing "F1" at the prompt
> would result in a "beep" signal and a loop back to the F1 prompt.

Ah.  The machine I was thinking of is a DL 185 that had a BTX fault that now 
works ok.

-- 
John Baldwin


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