Well, I got past the problem, but don't know what caused it.
I downloaded the boot.flp, kern1.flp and kern2.flp images and made floppies. Booted using the floppies and did the install off the burned iso images (the same ones I tried to boot with and caused the btx: halted). Installed clean. Now the machine is running 5.4-rel. thanks for all who tried to help. -Darryl > >Well, >I went and tried to look at the scrolling text. It had several > columsn with "in" "err" "ef1" "cip". Their is a line that says: >BTX Halted. >ss:esp= > >I'm pretty sure this is not the normal boot process. I'll look at the >handbook as suggested. > >-Darryl I found this when I Googled BTX Halted. ss:esp= : | BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 |> int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00010246 eip=00001934 |> eax=00021d60 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=ffffffff |> esi=00000000 edi=00020c34 ebp=00094bec esp=00094bdc |> cs=0026 db=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 |> cs:eip=0f 44 d6 89 55 fc 46 83-2c b7 00 74 05 83 fa ff |> ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff |> BTX halted |did you try a hard power reset after this message? I have an old |IBM intellistation that does the same thing with 5.x. After I install |I get the BTX halted, but if I cold boot it after the message it |will boot. |It sounds like you get the BTX Halted error before you install, is that |correct? If I remember correctly, the ISO image from the web site |should have an MD5 hash. Have you compared the hash on the web site |with the hash of the ISOs you downloaded? |Bryan Yes, the BTX Halted error occurs prior to the install. I tried hard power reset after getting the message and it still occurrs. I verified the MD5 has and its clean. I am out of ideas. Is there a special way to burn the iso's in windows using Nero ? I followed the nero instructions for burning an ISO image disk. thanks, Darryl _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
