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To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
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Subject: Re: Strange BTX halted error
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I had the exact same problem when I had 'SCSI Bios' enabled on my Adaptec 2940.

Turned it off and that stopped. Not sure what the problem is, but I know that is
the solution for me :)

Marc

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote:

> I have an N440BX motherboard that, when using console redirection (so the
> BIOS messages and such come over the serial port), displays the following:
>
> BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.01
> Console: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS drive A: is disk0
> BIOS drive C: is disk1
> BIOS 635kB/523200kB available memory
>
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
> (root@web-b1.pa.bmarts.com, Wed Oct  4 15:01:32 PDT 2000)
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
>
> int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00010216  eip=00005a6c
> eax=ff08428b  ebx=0000760c  ecx=ffffffff  edx=00030160
> esi=00037788  edi=00093468  ebp=00093258  esp=00093258
> cs=002b  ds=0033  es=0033    fs=0033  gs=0033  ss=0033
> cs:eip=89 11 83 40 08 04 c9 c3-55 89 e5 8b 45 08 8b 48
> ss:esp=98 32 09 00 d8 91 00 00-8b 42 08 ff 60 01 03 00
> BTX halted
>
> I was wondering if anyone else has seen this. The problem seems somewhat
> intermittent. It doesn't *always* happen but it often does. If I hit the
> reset switch, it seems to boot reliably from there.
>
> This system (actually systems. It's more than one so I know it's not
> hardware) booted perfectly until I enabled the console redirection.
> Nothing on the box has changed other than that.
>
> Any ideas? I'm stumped.
>
> -gordon
>
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