Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:36:13 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu <tseveendorj@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX Halted Message-ID: <ade45ae90910060836x3f3d86abm621a37a3b79da1ec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <62c908120910060136y130ebdeem96b04931a112ed02@mail.gmail.com> References: <62c908120910060136y130ebdeem96b04931a112ed02@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/6/09, Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu <tseveendorj@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > I've found something strange I have never seen before. When start booting > FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from ISO image in ESX 4.0 then error occurs. You can see > it from snapshot. > > I have following. > > Dell R900 with 4 CPU, 64GB RAM > ESX 4.0 installed on R900 > FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 > > What is this mean? > > Best regards, > Tseveen. > BTX - BooT eXtender, the process of moving from 16-bit real mode to 32-bit (or 64-bit?) protected mode. The system was unable to do this conversion. Happens on buggy "chipsets" (in quotes because this is on ESX). Go back to VM properties and double, triple check everything, go into the BIOS and disable any "window-isms" like PnP OS, power management, etc. You might have a corrupt download, check your MD5/SHA1 and redownload if applicable. --TJ
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