Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:42:57 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Rudy <crapsh@monkeybrains.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX loader fails via USB-CDROM on some motherboards Message-ID: <20071212094257.GA2138@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <475F81AB.6050709@monkeybrains.net> References: <475F81AB.6050709@monkeybrains.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:37:31PM -0800, Rudy wrote: > > I cannot install FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 on a SuperMicro PDSML motherboard via > USB-CDROM drive. > > > Here is an example motherboard that is a pain in the butt to install > FreeBSD onto: > http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3000/PDSML-LN2+.cfm > > 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 found fix the 'real mode' 'vm86' problem that > plagues FreeBSD install disks but no other OS that I know of. I am > offering a $50 bounty to FreeBSD > http://www.freebsd.org/donations/ > if the standard ISO for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE does not have this problem. Take the http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch and rebuild the ISO image with the patch. Code is not ready for inclusion into the CVS. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHX60gC3+MBN1Mb4gRApUcAJ0fkAAiH9ES8g8MRVdudrAi3lFywACeLRiU 4Zd0I+O74XgkWs+Z5W+jdM8= =xzhE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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