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Date:      Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:29:25 +0100
From:      Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BTX on USB pen drive
Message-ID:  <20080308222925.b1f7e9b7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
In-Reply-To: <200803081611.54820.lists@jnielsen.net>
References:  <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <200803070913.12978.jhb@freebsd.org> <200803071418.43480.lists@jnielsen.net> <200803081611.54820.lists@jnielsen.net>

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On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:11:54 -0500
John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> 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?

> 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?
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn




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