Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 13:35:34 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com> Cc: kib@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom Message-ID: <465A550E.7010504@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0705272056w552a95b8nbb593b1a61e638cb@mail.gmail.com> References: <3aaaa3a0705170830g46487cc7occc8a51b82a9118b@mail.gmail.com> <200705261920.08607.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4658285C.8030909@FreeBSD.org> <200705262246.03512.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <465A50D0.8050000@gsoft.com.au> <6eb82e0705272056w552a95b8nbb593b1a61e638cb@mail.gmail.com>
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Rong-en Fan wrote: > On 5/28/07, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: >> Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected >> >> systems of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I >> >> spliced it into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked. >> > >> > Ooh ahh, please sir, can I have some more^Wit? :) >> >> I did some googling.. Is this the patch? >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch >> >> (Going to try it today anyway :) > > [I'm CC'ing kib@] > > Yes, there is also a loader/pxeboot in the same directory. > As kib@ told me, do not install this loader on your disk > which may destroy your data. I see the binaries, I was thinking of trying one with a USB flash boot disk, I'll unplug my actual disks for safety :) -- 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
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