Old machine -

[Gerd Knops]

On Tuesday, Apr 15, 2003, at 14:57 US/Central, vizion communication 
wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> Can anyone give me any reason why BX should fail - tryig to
> install FreeBSD 4.7 on an old machine from CDROM. The
> machine loads a very old version of FreeBSD from hard drive
> (password long forgotten) so it seems to be running OK - it
> auto loads X windows - so the nachine seems to be running
> fine.
>
> Here is the output that I do not understand ;-( :
>
> int=00000000 err=00000000 efl=00030287 eip=0000ffff
> eax=0000ffff ebx=000055aa ecx=00004f12 edx=00000000
> esi=0000003d edi=00000000 ebp=00000000 esp=0000fffc
> cs=f000 ds=00fc es=3147 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9e7c
> cs=:eip:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 -00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> ss:esp:= 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> BTX Halted
>
>
> Any hints?
>
I vaguely remember encountering this a long time ago, and the trick was 
to turn of the BIOS Virus check.

Gerd