From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 19:08:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93983106564A for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:08:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rchisholm@southlandonline.ca) Received: from eu1sys200aog102.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog102.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.113]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B18378FC08 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from source ([72.38.239.188]) by eu1sys200aob102.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKS41iSVwW8zcZfE8SQRWOnMkYmTp14H5U@postini.com; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:08:58 UTC Received: from chavez.southlandonline.com ([10.31.0.34]) by CAWINM01.cyphersystems.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:08:56 -0500 From: Rick Chisholm Organization: Southland Insurance To: Remko Lodder Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:08:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <201003011401.05689.rchisholm@southlandonline.com> <201003021356.53796.rchisholm@southlandonline.com> <15575F9A-5B0E-4734-8D34-E52D5A9A2A65@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <15575F9A-5B0E-4734-8D34-E52D5A9A2A65@elvandar.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201003021408.56386.rchisholm@southlandonline.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Mar 2010 19:08:56.0829 (UTC) FILETIME=[CEC452D0:01CABA3B] Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX loader issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:08:59 -0000 On March 2, 2010 02:03:59 pm Remko Lodder wrote: > On Mar 2, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Rick Chisholm wrote: > > Thanks for the response. > > > > I did not see any PRs specifically mentioning this hardware. I did try > > to submit a bug report, but the reporting tool gave me an error, after > > trying a few times I gave up. > > > > The hardware in question is a new HP DC5850 SFF desktop - AMD Athlon X2 > > 5400, 160GB SATA (Seagate). > > I am not sure what caused that, though, you cannot say for sure that the > BTX loader does not work when you didn't try. It works for most people, but > some systems do not work; given the amount of users versus reports, I think > it's more exception then rule. > > Best regards, > Remko No sure I understand what you mean by "didn't try" - I have tried installing several BSD versions on this hardware all of which fail at the BTX loader, 8.0, 7.2 and 6.4 as well as the 8.0 live CD and PCBSD. I even used dd to image the drive directly from a known working image, same results. Only thing I have got to run has been an older FreeSBIE live CD running BTX version 1.01. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rick Chisholm Manager Information Technology Southland Insurance t. 519-326-4455 x. 4444 f. 519-326-1324 e. rchisholm@southlandonline.com