From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 04:05:51 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 9D8DF16A41F for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 04:05:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C4213C480 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 04:05:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (isaac.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.35]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4S45eaB066511; Mon, 28 May 2007 13:35:49 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: <465A550E.7010504@gsoft.com.au> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 13:35:34 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rong-en Fan 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> In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0705272056w552a95b8nbb593b1a61e638cb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: kib@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom 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: Mon, 28 May 2007 04:05:51 -0000 Rong-en Fan wrote: > On 5/28/07, Daniel O'Connor 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