Re: "BTX Halted" on Toshiba Portege 3010

From: Roland van Laar (the_mip_rvl_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 08/08/04

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To: Mike <mspam@www.ideaway.net>

    Mike wrote:

    >Taking a hard drive from a working install of almost -current
    >and placing it into the Portege 3010 shows a dump of reg
    >values and the message "BTX Halted". This happens shortly
    >after typing /boot/loader <enter> at the boot: prompt;
    >moments later the machine reboots.
    >Googling points at playing with DMA/PIO options in the BIOS
    >until the message goes away - there are no such options in
    >the Portege's BIOS, but I've pretty much tweaked every
    >setting that there is, and the results are exactly the same.
    >I've also found some posts of freebsd 3.x supposedly working
    >with this machine. So... was something broken along the
    >way, was support removed, or is there something I am missing
    >which will allow me to boot this machine into 5-current?
    >Mike
    >
    >
    >
    I had a 3020 which died 2 months ago, haven't had a current on it since
    februari, so
    at least 5.2.1 should work fine.

    regards,

    Roland

    ps. This is more an e-mail for mobile@

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