From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 8 22:22:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827721065675 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:22:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648ED8FC12 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:22:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.5.128] (jn@stealth.jnielsen.net [74.218.226.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m28MMTZn080394; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:22:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:22:26 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <200803081611.54820.lists@jnielsen.net> <20080308222925.b1f7e9b7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20080308222925.b1f7e9b7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803081722.26977.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:22:33 -0000 On Saturday 08 March 2008 04:29:25 pm Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:11:54 -0500 > > John Nielsen 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