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Subject: BTX loader fails via USB-CDROM on some motherboards
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I cannot install FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 on a SuperMicro PDSML motherboard via USB-CDROM drive.


Here is an example motherboard that is a pain in the butt to install FreeBSD onto:
  http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3000/PDSML-LN2+.cfm

Sure this is an old problem... 
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=78298+0+archive/2007/freebsd-stable/20070128.freebsd-stable
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-May/035447.html
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/143730.html
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-qa/2006-September/000783.html

Sure would be nice if someone found fix the 'real mode' 'vm86' problem that plagues FreeBSD install 
disks but no other OS that I know of.  I am offering a $50 bounty to FreeBSD
  http://www.freebsd.org/donations/
if the standard ISO for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE does not have this problem.

Rudy