Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:36:11 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Adriaan <fbsd.adriaan@gmail.com> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com>, jhb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom Message-ID: <200705311736.13386.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <74c3ddc40705301709s516f733ara0cf180a564bf149@mail.gmail.com> References: <3aaaa3a0705170830g46487cc7occc8a51b82a9118b@mail.gmail.com> <200705302246.26750.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <74c3ddc40705301709s516f733ara0cf180a564bf149@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1347762.71p3pf2zMZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:39, Adriaan wrote: > "Because other OS's run the BIOS in real mode, and we run it in vm86 > mode and we don't emulate enough instructions in vm86 mode for the > Compaq/HP BIOS." > > In another post > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/0287 >73.html he refers to a patch at > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch Ah interesting, there was another patch earlier in this thread which is=20 what I was testing. The patch does work, I hadn't installed the resulting code properly. I am not sure both patches address the same problem though. I added John to the CC list, hope he doesn't mind! It would be nice if these patches were committed before 7.0 too :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1347762.71p3pf2zMZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGXoH15ZPcIHs/zowRAsCjAJoDbntG+GhQXV5l1jcewsHV4ykD6QCfSCNz 8sEatME/kFERidVd3ZuIiQw= =Y0gt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1347762.71p3pf2zMZ--
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