From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 10 04:15:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7564916A417 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:15:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp111.plus.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp111.plus.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.95.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6327713C4B3 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:15:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 64923 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2007 04:15:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=p2FzDYe2zmD1tsme2u+6FDky8j6tEZ+vZ46xkMXorXfFY6cP6A/1WDxqvh5+Uu/6YcLoutOJvTt/0MndM0HRqu+k60Q3bc5MIR1yNEihkq3UQG8CG1lcleKqHUUOsLNYviVqORxiuwsi/b68pKIEiiXgSFR0eWDmdJpGadQjQzg= ; Received: from unknown (HELO borgdemon3.thruhere.net) (john_m_cooper@134.121.244.74 with plain) by smtp111.plus.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 2007 04:15:10 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: uf2V8PoVM1l.DQyjhiIwj3Mz39EOm5XM.0m2QRz9K4RR0.3qVkFvL0e4RTbKMJwWEqY8vbop1aLrTOKTFsRbNSijw5MwHiws92ikbPMOVXru1FZcZthfWVuGksyM Message-ID: <4735304B.70201@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:15:07 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4pre (X11/20071013) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor References: <192440147.20071026152939@opanki.ru> <20071026165151.GC37471@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20071109221846.9899eebd.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <200711101035.33077.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200711101035.33077.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted 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, 10 Nov 2007 04:15:23 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > >> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:51:51 +0300 >> >> Kostik Belousov wrote: >> >>> Take patch from >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx >>> (rev. 2). The new loader is at the same location, but it seems that >>> I did not saved new boot2. You need to install both boot block and >>> loader obtained from the build with the realbtx patch applied, to >>> you USB HDD drive. >>> >> Just for fun, I tested this patch on an Acer Aspire 5672AWLMi laptop. >> (See this page[1] for my adventures with this laptop.) >> This laptop doesn't say "BTX halted", it just scrolls a lot of text >> (register dumps?) across the screen forever. >> > > You could try this one as well.. > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch > > Although I have tried both and it works for some systems but not others > (eg Supermicro C2SBA bombs scrolling stack dumps over and over so fast > I can't take a picture of it). > > I should be getting another system like it soon so I can test it again, > hopefully I'll get time to add some 'go slow' routines to the stack > trace so I can actually record it :) > > btx_crx.patch doesn't apply cleanly to btx.S in FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 jmc