From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 22 18:54:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6735416A404 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:54:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.200.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAD813C465 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:54:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from icarus.home.lan (c-71-198-0-135.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.198.0.135]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2007012218543401300kg33be>; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:54:34 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9536A1FA038; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:54:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:54:33 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Torfinn Ingolfsen Message-ID: <20070122185433.GA65112@icarus.home.lan> Mail-Followup-To: Torfinn Ingolfsen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <45B2AAF8.9010509@isc.org> <45B3F996.8030303@FreeBSD.org> <20070122194631.cef384c2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070122194631.cef384c2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-PGP-Key: http://jdc.parodius.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM 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: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:54:35 -0000 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? > I can boot NetBSD and OpenBSD from different partitions on the same usb > hardrive, on the same laptop. > > Is there a known fix or workaround for this issue? (Probably not, but > just in case...) Does the GRUB bootloader behave this way? If not (e.g. it works), then one could use that as an alternative to btx. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |