Hello, I have a supermicro server with motherboard H8DMR-i2 v2.0 (http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/motherboard/opteron2000/mcp55/h8dmr-i2.cfm) The bios is at the latest level and I have 2 - 6core AMD CPUs. I've been running FreeBSD 9.3 with ZFS on root. When upgrading to 10.0 using freebsd-update -r 10.1-RELEASE. The upgrade completes but the system halts on reboot: Code: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk8 BIOS drive C: is disk9 int=00000000 err=00000000 efl=00010246 eip=00037df4 eax=00000001 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=00000000 edi=00000000 ebp=00092600 esp=00092598 cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 cs:eip=f7 35 90 f5 03 00 85 f6-74 05 89 3e 89 5e 04 89 c2 e9 cc 00 00 00 66 c7-45 ea 00 00 89 d8 c1 e8 ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 c8 25 09 00 BTX halted After the POST, the "spinning cursor" appears for just a second or two before it halts. I did a fresh 10.1 install on a new disk (same server) and the same thing happened. I also tried 10.2 beta (FreeBSD-10.2-PRERELEASE-amd64-20150704-r285132-memstick.img) with the same result. The system works fine on 9.3/zfs as well as 10.x/ufs. The problem only seems to occur on 10.x. I booted using a 10.1 installer memstick and went to a shell. I can import the ZFS "zroot" pool. I verified that the /boot/ directory contents of this pool matched the install memstick /boot/ (except kernel symbols files are not on the installer). Can someone please advise on next steps to resolve? I have a number of these systems and I would very much like to run 10.x. It does boot and run OK using FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20150625-r284814. Thanks Mike
Updated: Same problem occurs using 10.2-BETA2
UPDATE I was able to identify the cause of the problem. There is a BIOS setting WHEA (Windows Hardware Error Architecture) under the ACPI mode section. If set to ENABLED, the system will BTX HALT as above. If WHEA is set to DISABLED, the system boots and runs fine. If you set the BIOS settings to "Optimal" it will enable WHEA among other things. I used the the Optimal settings and then set WHEA to DISABLED. The setting is under BIOS / Advanced / BIOS features / ACPI Mode / General WHEA configuration / (choose Enabled or Disabled). Since it worked fine on 9.x and 11.x, can it be fixed in the BTX loader for 10.x?
Created attachment 159061 [details] dmesg Hi, same problem here (10.x fails, 11 ok), adding information in case it's useful for debugging. I'm running it on Asus M2N-MX bios 1004. On ACPI options I can choose between v1, v2 and v3. On v3 I get the BTX halted error, but boots ok otherwise. I'm attaching dmesg for 10.1 and ACPI v3.
Just tested on 10.2-RC1. Same failure. It would be a nasty surprise to anyone with this machine type when upgrading from 9.x to 10.2 and not being able to boot after freebsd-update if they don't know about the bios setting.
Mike, Does this problem exist on 11.2R or 12.0R when things are set the way you have them to provoke the bug? I think we've fixed this issue with all the other changes that have happened with BTX since 10.x.