On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD > 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. > After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU > registers and a message: BTX Halted. No matter what is changed in VM > setup.
Can you please download the 7.1-BETA2 ISO and try it instead? There have been changes to the FreeBSD boot loader between 7.0-RELEASE and 7.1-BETA2 which may improve things for you. The 7.1-BETA2 ISOs are available here: ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/ You can see the changes at the below Wiki (see very bottom of page): http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues > It does not happen with i386 version. > Which is the best release to install in this box? Should I go > ahead with i386? If this is going to be a desktop box and uses an nVidia video card, you should stay with i386 (if I remember correctly there are no working amd64 nVidia drivers). This won't allow you to use the full 8GB of RAM you have installed, though, without building a custom kernel with PAE support (and there are known compatibility problems between PAE and certain kernel drivers). It's strongly recommended you stick with amd64 if at all possible. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
