FreeBSD Installation Issues/Problems Error: BTX halted

When you receive the following error:

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS drive D: is disk2

BIOS 639kB/523264kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root at wvu1.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 18:35:51 GMT 2004)

int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030246 eip=00003034
eax=0000205d ebx=00000004 ecx=00002000 edx=0000288c
esi=00000904 edi=0006290c epb=00001538 esp=00001502
cs=f000 ds=ee00 es=ee00 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=ee00
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=0c 29 06 00 04 09 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

This error can occur when installing via a USB CD-ROM drive, or if you have a USB hard drive. The solution to this is to unplug them, and install without using that device.

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