bug on BTX

[dick hoogendijk]

On 22 Sep Dominic Marks wrote:
> CyberSans AirBort wrote:
> >i have tested 6.2-BETA and the same problem still appear when i want to
> >install it into compaq evo desktop; BTX HALTED.
> Go into the BIOS, disable BIOS DMA transfers **. After that it will boot
> normally. I have about 20 EVOs, which this change they run fine. This is
> true of all versions of FreeBSD I have ever tried.

Still remains the question on why FreeBSD is not able to boot when bios
DMA transfers are set set to on, while XP and linux just do what they're
supposed to. It should not be necessary i.m.h.o.

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