BTX halted

Subhro subhro.kar at gmail.com
Sat Jan 1 01:06:56 PST 2005


The first advice I would give is, go and trying flashing your BIOS with an
updated version.

Regards
S.

Indian Institute of Information Technology
Subhro Sankha Kar
Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
Salt Lake City
PIN 700091
India
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of kalin mintchev
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:04
> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: BTX halted
> 
> 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....
> 
> 
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