Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:23:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: srp@symonds.net Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX Halted on compaq EVO single processor m/c Message-ID: <20020809112219.B32380-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E17d3or-0000a0-00@symonds.net>
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 srp@symonds.net wrote: > Hi, > I got 'BTX HALTED' on a Compaq EVO on which i tried to boot FreeBSD > 4.5-RELEASE for the first time. After google'ing around I found out > that this is because the BIOS tries to go into protected mode on it's > own. The solution is that we unset 'BIOS DMA' in the bios. > > My problem is .. this machine is a company machine i have hijacked and > because of the current company policy the bios is locked and I don't > know the passwd. Well, there's always the BIOS PASSWORD RESET jumper. :-) > Since I don't enough about the booting details, i am asking the > following.. > * is there another way i can get boot2 to work ? > * is there any custom 'boot2' out there that i can use ? Actually its in loader if its btx croaking. Also I get BTX HALTEDs if you make dedicated-mode disks on a system with an Adaptec SCSI controller. Don't think the Evos are SCSI tho. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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