Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:19:54 GMT From: Rudy <crapsh@monkeybrains.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/118571: BTX issues when booting FreeBSD 7 from a USB CD-ROM Message-ID: <200712120719.lBC7JsRF059907@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200712120720.lBC7K3BK072647@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 118571 >Category: kern >Synopsis: BTX issues when booting FreeBSD 7 from a USB CD-ROM >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 12 07:20:03 UTC 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Rudy >Release: 7.0-BETA4 >Organization: MonkeyBrains >Environment: >Description: A FreeBSD ISO does not boot via a USB CD-ROM for Supermicro (and other?) motherboards that use Intel CPUs. Sure this is an old problem... http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=78298+0+archive/2007/freebsd-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.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-qa/2006-September/000783.html Sure would be nice if someone could fix the 'real mode' 'vm86' problem that plagues FreeBSD install disks but no other OS. I am offering a $50 bounty to be paid to http://www.freebsd.org/donations/ if the standard ISO for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE addresses this problem. In other words, if I can download the ISO, burn it to disk, and boot it off a a USB CD-ROM onto Supermicro hardware. >How-To-Repeat: Download the ISO for 7.0-BETA4 Check checksum :) Burn to disk attempt to boot disk on USB-CDROM drive attached to a Supermicro Motherboard (eg the PDSML or PDSMi) >Fix: The only acceptable fix would be a new, working ISO on ftp.freebsd.org. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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