From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 07:22:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB0116A4CF for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:22:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.el.net (mail.el.net [68.165.89.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E7D843D64 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:22:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kalin@el.net) Received: (qmail 22723 invoked by uid 1008); 4 Jan 2005 07:23:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.el.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.el.net with SMTP; 4 Jan 2005 07:23:33 -0000 Received: from 68.165.89.73 (SquirrelMail authenticated user kalin@el.net); by mail.el.net with HTTP; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 02:23:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <59114.68.165.89.73.1104823413.squirrel@68.165.89.73> In-Reply-To: <53879.68.165.89.73.1104554054.squirrel@68.165.89.73> References: <53879.68.165.89.73.1104554054.squirrel@68.165.89.73> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 02:23:33 -0500 (EST) From: "kalin mintchev" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:22:48 -0000 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" > --