hi all... i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine... i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose. i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non of that helped - i couldn't find how to disable DMA. the only location i saw the DMA mentioned was under PnP/PCI configurations => Resources Controlled by in the bios but there the setting is Auto(ESCD). i tried al the options there and it still stops at the same place... anybody can help?! thanks.... --
The first advice I would give is, go and trying flashing your BIOS with an updated version. Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of kalin mintchev > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:04 > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: BTX halted > > hi all... > > i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine... > i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot > stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose. > i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non of > that helped - i couldn't find how to disable DMA. the only location i saw > the DMA mentioned was under PnP/PCI configurations => Resources Controlled > by in the bios but there the setting is Auto(ESCD). i tried al the options > there and it still stops at the same place... > > anybody can help?! > > thanks.... > > > -- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3677 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050101/37ef7989/smime.bin
this is a few days old. i got a reply saying to try floppies but from the INSTALL.txt under the amd64/5.3-REL it says: 1.3 Floppy Disk Image Instructions Floppy disk based install is not supported on FreeBSD/amd64. like i said i played with bios settings and nothing really worked. can somebody help? thanks..> hi all... > > i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine... > i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot > stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose. > i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non of > that helped - i couldn't find how to disable DMA. the only location i saw > the DMA mentioned was under PnP/PCI configurations => Resources Controlled > by in the bios but there the setting is Auto(ESCD). i tried al the options > there and it still stops at the same place... > > anybody can help?! > > thanks.... > > > -- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >--