Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:54:33 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM Message-ID: <20070122185433.GA65112@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20070122194631.cef384c2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <45B2AAF8.9010509@isc.org> <45B3F996.8030303@FreeBSD.org> <20070122194631.cef384c2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:46:31PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Aha. So on a laptop I have where booting FreeBSD from a usb harddrive > results in endless scrolling of text on the console (probably register > dumps, hard to tell) until the laptop is turned off, this might be the > same issue? > I can boot NetBSD and OpenBSD from different partitions on the same usb > hardrive, on the same laptop. > > Is there a known fix or workaround for this issue? (Probably not, but > just in case...) Does the GRUB bootloader behave this way? If not (e.g. it works), then one could use that as an alternative to btx. -- | 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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