On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:07:12 +
"Bruce M. Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Until the btx code is rewritten to deal with BIOS routines which
> expect to be run from within real mode and not vm86 mode, GRUB is
> probably the most convenient workaround for the issue.
Hmm, I am trying to get
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:46:31PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
Aha. So on a laptop I have where booting FreeBSD from a usb harddrive
results in endless scrolling of text on the console (probably register
dumps, hard to tell) until the laptop is turned off, this might
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
I hope I don't need to test grub. Everytime I try it, I end up having
to recover something (probably my fault). I'm really not comfortable
with grub.
Until the btx code is rewritten to deal with BIOS routines which expect
to be run from within real mode and not vm86
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:54:33 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does the GRUB bootloader behave this way? If not (e.g. it works),
> then one could use that as an alternative to btx.
Don't know, I haven't tested it.
I have tested the NetBSD boot loader, and it behaves in the same
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:46:31PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Aha. So on a laptop I have where booting FreeBSD from a usb harddrive
> results in endless scrolling of text on the console (probably register
> dumps, hard to tell) until the laptop is turned off, this might be the
> same issue?
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:39:02 +
"Bruce M. Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Losher wrote:
> > In both cases, once the USB CD-ROM started loading either 6.1 or
> > 6.2, I get a BTX halt:
> >
> Known issue. The btx code can't deal with BIOSes which want to enter
> protected mode to
Peter Losher wrote:
In both cases, once the USB CD-ROM started loading either 6.1 or 6.2, I
get a BTX halt:
Known issue. The btx code can't deal with BIOSes which want to enter
protected mode to service the I/Os. USB support in most BIOSen generally
does this. I see the same issue with FreeB
Peter Losher wrote:
I have a Matushita based USB CD/DVD-ROM drive that I have been using to
install FreeBSD with for the better part of the last year. I just took
delivery yesterday of both a HP Proliant 1450 G3 and a generic 1U server
based on a Tyan Tomcat i845GV S3098 MB.
In both cases, onc
I have a Matushita based USB CD/DVD-ROM drive that I have been using to
install FreeBSD with for the better part of the last year. I just took
delivery yesterday of both a HP Proliant 1450 G3 and a generic 1U server
based on a Tyan Tomcat i845GV S3098 MB.
In both cases, once the USB CD-ROM starte
