From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 08:06:17 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 1BEDA16A41F for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 08:06:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CBA313C45A for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 08:06:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.61]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4V86E7G019298 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 31 May 2007 17:36:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Adriaan Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:36:11 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <3aaaa3a0705170830g46487cc7occc8a51b82a9118b@mail.gmail.com> <200705302246.26750.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <74c3ddc40705301709s516f733ara0cf180a564bf149@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <74c3ddc40705301709s516f733ara0cf180a564bf149@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1347762.71p3pf2zMZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705311736.13386.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Kostik Belousov , Rong-en Fan , jhb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom 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: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:06:17 -0000 --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--