Re: Compaq Evo boot problem

[Haidut <haidut@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

On 7/27/06, YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt+dfly@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.