Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:40:04 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: Vincent Mialon <vincent@netaktiv.com>, tech@gitoyen.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <20080307234004.GA47764@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <47D1C705.5030604@andric.com> References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <200803071059.48837.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200803070913.12978.jhb@freebsd.org> <47D1C705.5030604@andric.com>
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:51:49PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2008-03-07 15:13, John Baldwin wrote: > > Try this instead: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch > > Hi John, > > I've encounted way too many machines already with BIOSes that clash with > the regular btx loader... :( Have we considered sgetting rid of BTX and using a different bootloader altogether on FreeBSD? There's got to be some open-source, non-GPL bootloaders which work better than our current. The reason I mention this is because the number of problem reports with BTX continue to rise, and debugging them is very painful since due to the way the crash is reported, no one can easily report a full register dump. I suppose if the latter was addressed, the former could be solved quicker. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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