On Saturday 08 March 2008 04:29:25 pm Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:11:54 -0500 > > John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Success! I was able to boot my laptop from my USB stick built with > > the btx_real patch (after I modified hunk 1 to work with the 7-STABLE > > sources). Using the same stick on a different (Acer) laptop I was > > Interesting. Which Acer model is that? > The laptop I have troubles booting from usb is an Acer Aspire 5672. > I boot from an usb hard drive, not a memory stick, but that shouldn't > make a matter, right?
I wouldn't think so. The Acer here (an Aspire 5520) won't even boot from the internal CD with a regular ISO install disk. I haven't tried any other approaches except for the USB stick with jhb's patch earlier today. > > able to get farther in the boot than previously--it won't even boot > > from a standard CD, but with the stick it got to the menu (and THEN > > did a btx register dump, but it didn't loop/scroll). > > > > In case anyone (like Torfinn) is interested, I'm attaching my > > modified patch. If you already applied jhb's patch then you should be > > able to just cut out the first hunk from mine and apply it. > > Thanks. > I already used the latest revision (1.45) of btx.S and applied jhb's > patch to that. Unfortunately, it didn't work. See another message in > this thread. Am I correct in thinking that your modified patch wouldn't > help me? Correct. (unless the unpatched version from -HEAD introduced a regression, but I think they're pretty similar). JN _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
