Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Billy Tallis
On 11/13/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On 11/14/05 07:54 Billy Tallis said the following:
  I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop
  with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of
  ram.

 16MB of RAM, that doesnt sound like much.

The amount of RAM may limit the usability of the system, but it has
nothing whatsoever to do with the bootloader.

The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel.
From the information I have found online, BTX does not seem to be as
reliable as loaders such as isolinux, which has no trouble on the
laptop. I just want to know if there are ways to boot a bsd kernel on
this laptop, which has no floppy and a cardbus ethernet nic.
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Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Dinesh Nair



On 11/14/05 23:56 Billy Tallis said the following:

The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel.

From the information I have found online, BTX does not seem to be as


what are the errors you're getting at the btx boot: prompt ?

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Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Billy Tallis
On 11/14/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 11/14/05 23:56 Billy Tallis said the following:
  The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel.

 what are the errors you're getting at the btx boot: prompt ?

There are no errors at the boot: prompt. It is when I hit enter to
actually boot that I get a register dump followed by the message BTX
halted and the screeen blanks. From here, I have to press the reset
button. I never see the copyright messages from the kernel.

It seems that DMA can cause this problem, so I did what I could to
turn it off in the bios, to no avail.

Thanks
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BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Billy Tallis
I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop
with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of
ram. When I boot to the installation cd, I get the register dump and
BTX halted message, and the screen then goes blank but the power stays
on. I have disabled as much as possible in the BIOS, including EIDE,
but nothing changes.

Is there any way to get BSD to install without using the BTX loader on the CD?

Thanks
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Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Dinesh Nair



On 11/14/05 07:54 Billy Tallis said the following:

I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop
with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of
ram. 


16MB of RAM, that doesnt sound like much.

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