what's next? (error after BTX started)

From: user local (local.usr_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/23/05

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    Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:05:46 +0300
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    This computer I'm writing from is a Compaq Evo D310m/845 r BU ALL
    I found enthusiastic articles about FreeBSD, so I decide to download the
    stuff (FreeBSD5.4RELEASEi386) and I start to load it.

    The result follows...
    Building the boot loader arguments
    Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
    Relocated the loader and the BTX
    Starting the BTX loader

    BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
    Console> internal video/keyboard
    BIOS CD is cd0
    BIOS drive C: is disk0
    BIOS drive D: is disk1
    BIOS 639kB/252928kB available memory

    FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
    (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 8 05:59:07 UTC 2005)
    |
    int=0xd err=0x0 efl=0x30246 eip=0x3034
    eax=0x205d ebx=0x4 ecx=0x2000 edx=0x288c
    esi=0x8d5 edi=05b74c ebp=0x1538 esp=0x1502
    cs=0xf000 ds=0xee00 es=0xee00 fs=0x0 gs=0x0 ss=0xee00
    cs:eip=0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75
    08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75
    ss:esp=4c b7 05 00 d5 08 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00
    04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00
    BTX halted

    End (that's from me:))
    Note: an underscore blinks under the e from esi

    I was advertise by a small banner that the computer was designed for an
    obscure system produced by a company in Redmont, somewhere in the West o
    USA, Windows XP, but I didn't mean it. Is that true? I'd like to deny this,
    but I'm not so good to provide an argument, i.e. installation w/
    1280x1024x32/70Hz X Windows. Hope you will help me guys, until my boss
    change his mind of Open Source and Friends (however, take your time, various
    linuces worked on this box).

    But seriously, I noticed that something strange is happening w/ booting even
    Micro$ on theese boxes, as well on some compaq laptops: the only floppy I
    manage to boot from was a Partition Image one, and when I installed an Open
    on a laptop, I discover a hidden partition at the begining of the hard disc.
    Several Live CDs and other booting CDs stuff, an W2k including, also failed.
    I have 20 boxes like this, and that's happend not only on a specific one, so
    it can not be a CD drive problem.

    Help me, please! just once!
    Bundy, Al, esq.
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