Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:13:50 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM Message-ID: <20070203231350.28d9e332.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <45B52780.5090505@FreeBSD.org> References: <45B2AAF8.9010509@isc.org> <45B3F996.8030303@FreeBSD.org> <20070122194631.cef384c2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20070122185433.GA65112@icarus.home.lan> <20070122203718.60e59d5e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <45B52780.5090505@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:07:12 +0000 "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Until the btx code is rewritten to deal with BIOS routines which > expect to be run from within real mode and not vm86 mode, GRUB is > probably the most convenient workaround for the issue. Hmm, I am trying to get grub to work. Do I need a special version of grub in order to boot FreeBSD? I now have an external usb hard drive with the following partitions: 1: primary partition, FreeBSD (6.x) 2: primary partition, FreeBSD (7.x) 3: extended partition, contains - linux-swap (2 GB) - linux, ext3 Ubuntu 6.10 with grub 0.97 (it is the version that comes with Ubuntu 6.10) as boot loader. However, when I try to load FreeBSD, it doesn't work, I only get this error: 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS I also tried grub-install with the --force-lba parameter, that didn't help either. Any hints? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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