From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 3 22:13:52 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 4826116A405 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FA413C494 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JCW00M55R332SC0@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:13:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no ([80.203.66.169]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with SMTP id <0JCW00JS3R32PM6E@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:13:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:13:50 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH In-reply-to: <45B52780.5090505@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <20070203231350.28d9e332.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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> Subject: Re: BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM 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: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:13:52 -0000 On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:07:12 +0000 "Bruce M. Simpson" 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