Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 02:23:33 -0500 (EST) From: "kalin mintchev" <kalin@el.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted 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>
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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" > --
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