From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 09:43:11 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F6916A41B for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:43:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com (relay02.kiev.sovam.com [62.64.120.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CB013C458 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:43:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from [212.82.216.226] (helo=deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J2O7K-000JYn-Vt for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:43:09 +0200 Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (kostik@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lBC9gwVl035056; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:42:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: (from kostik@localhost) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id lBC9gvRu035055; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:42:57 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:42:57 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov To: Rudy Message-ID: <20071212094257.GA2138@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <475F81AB.6050709@monkeybrains.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <475F81AB.6050709@monkeybrains.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Scanner-Signature: f2683d8df775da069012ccac6e6e6321 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: kostikbel@gmail.com X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1872 [Dec 11 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: not dialup} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Method: Local Lists X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX loader fails via USB-CDROM on some motherboards X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:43:11 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:37:31PM -0800, Rudy wrote: >=20 > I cannot install FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 on a SuperMicro PDSML motherboard via= =20 > USB-CDROM drive. >=20 >=20 > Here is an example motherboard that is a pain in the butt to install=20 > FreeBSD onto: > http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3000/PDSML-LN2+.cfm >=20 > Sure this is an old problem...=20 > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D78298+0+archive/2007/freeb= sd-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.h= tml > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-qa/2006-September/000783.html >=20 > Sure would be nice if someone found fix the 'real mode' 'vm86' problem th= at=20 > plagues FreeBSD install disks but no other OS that I know of. I am=20 > 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. Take the http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch and rebuild the ISO image with the patch. Code is not ready for inclusion into the CVS. --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHX60gC3+MBN1Mb4gRApUcAJ0fkAAiH9ES8g8MRVdudrAi3lFywACeLRiU 4Zd0I+O74XgkWs+Z5W+jdM8= =xzhE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--