Bug 53203

Summary:	"BTX halted" when attempting install of 5.1-RELEASE from CD-ROM on HP Proliant DL360 G3
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	david
Component:	i386	Assignee:	freebsd-i386 (Nobody) <i386>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description david 2003-06-11 15:30:16 UTC

	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.

Fix: 

I don't know
How-To-Repeat: 	Power on
	Insert CD-ROM
	wait

Comment 1 david 2003-06-23 16:38:37 UTC

Fixed.

It was a firmware problem.

Here's what to do. Boot the PC, and press F9 at the appropriate moment 
to run the BIOS configuration program. Under the section "Advanced 
Options", change "Virtual install disk" from enabled to disabled.

Reboot, and the kernel boots correctly from cD-ROM. (As it turns out I 
booted off a 4.8 iso, because that is what I had handy. I assume that 
it would work correctly for 5.1 too).

David Landgren

Comment 2 dannyboy freebsd_committer

2004-07-14 23:56:49 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Originator solved the problem.