freebsd stable - May 2003 - Boot problem HP/Compaq DL360 G3

The machine in question is a DL360 G3 R03 Xeon DP 3060-512/533 (part
number: 322471-421). It's the first HP-branded model we've had so
far (previously all Compaq branded). It has 1Gb of memory and
a couple of drives on the on-board SCSI controller (setup for
mirroring in the SCSI bios). No SMP is setup right now (doesn't
get far enough to do anything with it!). In any case, this happens
on boxes with a single processor.

The bootstrap fails - appears to get as far as starting the FICL
interpreter and then dumps the register contents to console and
stops.

A screen dump of the console (from ilo/lightsout/rsc) is at
	http://www.flirble.org/chrisy/images/Random/DL360G3.jpg

It does exactly this booting from floppy or cdrom, on STABLE,
CURRENT and various flavours of 4.x-RELEASE. The dump was from
a 4.8 boot floppy.

I've had no joy trying to work out where the eip pointed to in the
code at the point of departure.

Does anybody have any ideas? 

Linux succeeds in booting, and is what this machine is now running.

There's no obvious tweaks in the BIOS config that seem relevant, but
we did for instance disable PXE everywhere and tweaked most other
things in vain hope. Disabling the on-board SCSI doesn't help
either.

Regards,
Chris.
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== chrisy@flix.net

Scrap that. Disabling "Virtual boot device" under advanced options
in the BIOS appears to have resolved the issue.

I hate it when I resolve stuff 5 seconds after asking about it
on a list. :)

Chris.

Chris Luke wrote (on May 19):
> The machine in question is a DL360 G3 R03 Xeon DP 3060-512/533 (part
> number: 322471-421). It's the first HP-branded model we've had so
> far (previously all Compaq branded). It has 1Gb of memory and
> a couple of drives on the on-board SCSI controller (setup for
> mirroring in the SCSI bios). No SMP is setup right now (doesn't
> get far enough to do anything with it!). In any case, this happens
> on boxes with a single processor.
> 
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== chrisy@flirble.org