On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:46:51AM -0400, Haidut wrote: > Yes, I followed this article and set everything to MAX PIO. It still > doesn't work and it's very annoying. BTW, to do give Dfly credit I > have to say that installing the latest FreeBSD version gives the same > error. This is a really embarassing bug for a modern operating system > to have. Of all things, the bootloader should be the most stable. And > the computer is not that old either. It's a P4 and both Linux and > Windows work on it like charm.
Hmm, your problem looks more like this one: http://forums.devshed.com/bsd-help-31/installs-fine-but-won-t-boot-334343.html#post1543431 > On 7/27/06, YONETANI Tomokazu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 07:42:32PM -0400, Haidut wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I installed Dfly on a Compaq Evo desktop and when I try to boot from > >> the HDD I get several lines of cryptic messages in hex and then a line > >> withe text "BTX halted". > >> I found some posts on the Internet saying that *BSD have problem > >> booting on some Compaq machines but none of the posts offered > >> conclusive advice. Some advices were to change the HDD settings in the > >> BIOX to "MAX PIO" and I did that but still the same error. I saw a > >> post on the Dfly list from back in 2004 with the same problem but > >> nobody responded to that person. Any clues on how to fix this? > > > >Hi, the following article seems to suggest that you need to > >disable DMA for CD-ROM and other things too, not just HDD, > >did you tried that? > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2003-July/000418.html > > > >Cheers. > >
