Hi all, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
It would be a good thing to solve the real mode problem, as it would enable FreeBSD to be booted from memory stick, USB CDROM, and within QEMU without resorting to the current workarounds e.g. using GRUB or skipping /boot/loader entirely to boot the kernel directly as I currently do in QEMU virtualization.
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Indeed I recently ran into this myself. Certain 1U machines which I acquired had problems booting from USB CDROM. I traced this back to the USB BIOS trying to LGDT and causing a general protection fault in vm86 mode. I worked around this by PXE booting them on a private VLAN with most helpful assistance from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Is there any progress in fixing FreeBSD bootloader to be able to boot from USB devices? Any patches available which can I test? Or are there any possible workaround to make FreeBSD bootable from USB flashdrive in any machine? (I can boot from USB flashdrive and USB DVD-RW on my home PC and notebook, but can not boot HP DL140 and Sun Fire X2100 servers ;[)
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