From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 9 11:26:18 2002 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 3D61137B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497FB43E4A for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4A6B472F9D; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AFA72D9E; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:23:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: srp@symonds.net Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX Halted on compaq EVO single processor m/c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020809112219.B32380-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 srp@symonds.net wrote: > Hi, > I got 'BTX HALTED' on a Compaq EVO on which i tried to boot FreeBSD > 4.5-RELEASE for the first time. After google'ing around I found out > that this is because the BIOS tries to go into protected mode on it's > own. The solution is that we unset 'BIOS DMA' in the bios. > > My problem is .. this machine is a company machine i have hijacked and > because of the current company policy the bios is locked and I don't > know the passwd. Well, there's always the BIOS PASSWORD RESET jumper. :-) > Since I don't enough about the booting details, i am asking the > following.. > * is there another way i can get boot2 to work ? > * is there any custom 'boot2' out there that i can use ? Actually its in loader if its btx croaking. Also I get BTX HALTEDs if you make dedicated-mode disks on a system with an Adaptec SCSI controller. Don't think the Evos are SCSI tho. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message