BTX halted

Hi!

I have read about the "BTX halted" problems in the archives (found 3 
related threads) but I decided to report my problem also, even though I 
have yet to try out some of the mentioned solutions. This is more or 
less a repost of my mail to the freebsd-questions mailing list as I feel 
I should report it here also.

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto one of my computers. I'm 
relatively fresh to FreeBSD so I don't have much experience with errors 
suh as this one, which appears right after booting from the CD (burned 
from the disc-1 ISO file, works OK on two other computers. I finalized 
the CD after burning so this shouldn't be a problem)

Here's the error:

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS drive D: is disk2

BIOS 639kB/523264kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root_at_wvu1.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004)

int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030246 eip=00003034
eax=0000205d ebx=00000004 ecx=00002000 edx=0000288c
esi=00000904 edi=0006290c epb=00001538 esp=00001502
cs=f000 ds=ee00 es=ee00     fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=ee00
cs:eip=0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75
        08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75
ss:esp=0c 29 06 00 04 09 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00
        04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00
BTX halted

************ end of error

On this same computer I have Win2k installed and working normally. I 
also tried booting from a FreeSBIE CD and Knoppix 3.3 CD. FreeSBIE 
reports the same error while Knoppix boots without problems (although it 
complains something about my computer not having more than 1 processor??)
I tried installing Linux, Slackware Linux 9.1 works w/o any apparent 
problems so far (I'm also new to Linux :))

My computer is a Compaq Evo D310, I have a P4 1.8GHz processor. 
Processor speed is 1800/400 MHz, stepping F24, Compaq BIOS reports 
System ROM as 68602 v2.14

Attached below is also dmesg output from Slackware Linux.

What is happening and why can't I boot FreeBSD on my machine? Is it a 
hardware issue? Paying big $$ to get a supposedly good brand name 
computer which then won't even boot FreeBSD is something I guess I'll 
never do again.

As I have browsed through the archives, I found about some solutions - I 
will try booting from a floppy, also from a FreeBSD 4.9 CD. 
Unfortunately this will take some time as I am not connected to the 
internet but I can report my findings here if that's not an annoyance.

Regards
Android66


dmesg output:

Linux version 2.4.22 (root_at_midas) (gcc version 3.2.3) #6 Tue Sep 2 
17:43:01 PDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
  BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126960 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=342
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1793.378 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3578.26 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515364k/524224k available (1813k kernel code, 8472k reserved, 
614k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU:     After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch_at_atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.20 entry at 0xeca48, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/24c0] at 00:1f.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xe080d000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:c210
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT 
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.1
ICH4: chipset revision 1
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x24a0-0x24a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x24a8-0x24af, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 2F040J0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03a9d80, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03a9ebc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: DV-516E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CD-W540E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=5310/240/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
  hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
    8regs     :  2056.800 MB/sec
    32regs    :  1290.400 MB/sec
    pIII_sse  :  2326.000 MB/sec
    pII_mmx   :  2012.800 MB/sec
    p5_mmx    :  2006.800 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (2326.000 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
Adding Swap: 997912k swap-space (priority -1)
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:05.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 845G, but could not find the secondary 
device. Assuming a non-integrated video card.
agpgart: Detected Intel(R) 845G chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M _at_ 0xec000000
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker 
http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin 
<saw_at_saw.sw.com.sg> and others
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 05:08.0
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:08:02:B7:CC:D8, IRQ 5.
   Board assembly 287579-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45
   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
   General self-test: passed.
   Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
   Internal registers self-test: passed.
   ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
i810_rng: RNG not detected
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1d.7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB2
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: irq 5, pci mem e0c0f000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW.
PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size corrected to 16.
ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x2440, IRQ 10
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x2460, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc025) is not claimed by any 
active driver.
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
input0: B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse on usb2:2.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech_at_suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
UMSDOS 0.86k (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos)