From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 04:33:43 2005 Return-Path: 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 C40F416A4CF for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 04:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.el.net (mail.el.net [68.165.89.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 115C243D31 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 04:33:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kalin@el.net) Received: (qmail 93666 invoked by uid 1008); 1 Jan 2005 04:34:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.el.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.el.net with SMTP; 1 Jan 2005 04:34:14 -0000 Received: from 68.165.89.73 (SquirrelMail authenticated user kalin@el.net); by mail.el.net with HTTP; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:34:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <53879.68.165.89.73.1104554054.squirrel@68.165.89.73> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:34:14 -0500 (EST) From: "kalin mintchev" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal References: In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: BTX halted X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:33:43 -0000 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.... --