BTX halted

2007-02-14 Thread Douglas Berry
I have a FreeSBIE image on USB ``thumb drive''. It was created using ``make flash''. This work fine (thanks!) on some systems, but on others, The loader dies. I understand this to be a problem with src/sys/boot/i386/btx (real mode vs. vm86 mode) and the suggested workaround is to use GRUB. Has

Re: Using Grub to boot FreeSBIE

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Berry
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:49:10 EDT, Scott Ullrich wrote: Does anyone know how to use Grub as the boot loader for FreeSBIE? I've made a vain attempt. I'm now using the BTX patches from http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/ with some success. cheers, doug -- FreeSBIE mailing list

Re: Using Grub to boot FreeSBIE

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Berry
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:14:38 EDT, Scott Ullrich wrote: Thanks for the reply! Can you outline what success you have had and what there is left to solve? Maybe we can work together to make this work. I've been using CURRENT, and am able to boot some systems that I couldn't boot before (IBM