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From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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	"Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <alex.kovalenko@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: etherboot + pxeboot ?
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Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 03/07/07 18:19, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
>> I played with this as recently as December. The BTX halted problem 
>> you are seeing is the same 'ol same 'ol 'BTX wants to play in vm86 
>> mode, but BIOS or expansion ROM wants to play in real mode' problem.
>>
>
> So excuse my ignorance on this, but is this something that is fixable, 
> or is pxeboot just never going to work right?
It's fixable if someone sits down and takes the time to rewrite BTX to 
be able to trampoline into real mode when calling certain BIOS routines. 
I tried to sit down and do this last October when I had some free time 
to work on it, but got nowhere fast.

Regards,
BMS