From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 05:17:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7C937B401 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 05:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436C443FBD for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 05:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@suffix.demon.co.uk) Received: from pr-webmail-2.demon.net ([194.159.244.50] helo=web.mail.demon.net) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 19BZTh-00046P-0Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 13:17:25 +0100 Received: from suffix.demon.co.uk ([217.207.78.114]) by web.mail.demon.net with http; Fri, 02 May 2003 13:17:25 +0100 From: alex@suffix.demon.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 13:17:25 +0100 User-Agent: Demon-WebMail/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Subject: Problems getting FreeBSD installed and operational X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 12:17:27 -0000 Hi, I'm getting to my wits end with trying to get FreeBSD installed and working on a Compaq Evo D310 machine. Below is a description of what I've tried and any help would be most gratefully received :-) Insert FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE CD (downloaded ISO on 29th April 2003) - boot machine, the machine reads the CD - I get dash '-' in the top left of the screen, then a register dump followed by the message "BTX halted" Tried the above operations with 4.2-RELEASE and 4.4-RELEASE CDs as well (the only ones that I have to hand at the moment) - same results. OK, I thought - switch to boot floppy mode - created the disks, and loaded from them - hey I'm getting some results - perform a minimal installtion, and every thing goes fine - right up until the time that I reboot to start BSD for real, and guess what, register dump and "BTX halted". Tried this twice, once with "Standard MBR" and once with the boot menu - both have the same results. The machine is standard - straight out of the box - and I don't want to dual-boot it so I've zapped the MS XP builder partition. I've tried searching for others who have had similar problems - with no cures showing. Can anybody help with this please? Regards, Alex Croton P.S. I can transcribe the register dump if it will help!