Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:15:07 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader on Dell INSPIRON 1501: BTX halted Message-ID: <4735304B.70201@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200711101035.33077.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <192440147.20071026152939@opanki.ru> <20071026165151.GC37471@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20071109221846.9899eebd.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <200711101035.33077.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > >> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:51:51 +0300 >> >> Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> 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
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