Re: Compaq Evo boot problem

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Haidut wrote:
> 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?

not really.  as no developer could reproduce and debug it, it is quite hard to fix.  it is a fault in the boot loader, most probably triggered by the BIOS.  unfortunately the boot blocks are quite space constrained so that printing a usable backtrace or even dumping is quite hard :/

cheers
 simon

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