On Thursday 13 May 2004 02:36 pm, Android66 wrote: > 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 00000000 0F20DD mov ebp,cr3 00000003 81E500F0 and bp,0xf000 00000007 0F20C2 mov edx,cr0 0000000A 0F01E0 smsw ax 0000000D A801 test al,0x1 Your BIOS is doing bad things. Actually, there is a known workaround for this specific problem for Compaq BIOS's: try changing the ATA devices to use simple DMA or PIO rather than Ultra DMA. I have patches to fix this but they make the bootstrap to big. :( -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Thu May 13 2004 - 10:50:13 UTC
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