BTX halted
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 13 12:50:13 PDT 2004
On Thursday 13 May 2004 02:36 pm, Android66 wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have read about the "BTX halted" problems in the archives (found 3
> related threads) but I decided to report my problem also, even though I
> have yet to try out some of the mentioned solutions. This is more or
> less a repost of my mail to the freebsd-questions mailing list as I feel
> I should report it here also.
>
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto one of my computers. I'm
> relatively fresh to FreeBSD so I don't have much experience with errors
> suh as this one, which appears right after booting from the CD (burned
> from the disc-1 ISO file, works OK on two other computers. I finalized
> the CD after burning so this shouldn't be a problem)
>
> Here's the error:
>
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version 1.01
> Console: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS CD is cd0
> BIOS drive A: is disk0
> BIOS drive C: is disk1
> BIOS drive D: is disk2
>
> BIOS 639kB/523264kB available memory
>
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> (root at wvu1.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004)
>
> int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030246 eip=00003034
> eax=0000205d ebx=00000004 ecx=00002000 edx=0000288c
> esi=00000904 edi=0006290c epb=00001538 esp=00001502
> cs=f000 ds=ee00 es=ee00 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=ee00
> cs:eip=0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75
> 08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75
> ss:esp=0c 29 06 00 04 09 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00
> 04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00
> BTX halted
00000000 0F20DD mov ebp,cr3
00000003 81E500F0 and bp,0xf000
00000007 0F20C2 mov edx,cr0
0000000A 0F01E0 smsw ax
0000000D A801 test al,0x1
Your BIOS is doing bad things. Actually, there is a known workaround for this
specific problem for Compaq BIOS's: try changing the ATA devices to use
simple DMA or PIO rather than Ultra DMA. I have patches to fix this but they
make the bootstrap to big. :(
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