HP Smart Array issues

[epoch]

(2012-12-04 05:19)epoch Wrote:  1706-The Extended BIOS Data Area in Server Memory has been Overwritten - Smart Array Interrupt 13h BIOS Cannot Continue - System Halted

posting some progress here (not that i'm going anywhere).

I found that i can get a shell (if that's what i feed to my ipxe.lkrn), and type a couple of commands before it bombs. so i'm going to try to get a remote GDB console, and see what i can find out...
(first time debugger user - be gentle!)