Hi all,
Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
It would be a good thing to solve the real mode problem, as it would
enable FreeBSD to be booted from memory stick, USB CDROM, and within
QEMU without resorting to the current workarounds e.g. using GRUB or
skipping /boot/loader entirely to boot the kernel direc
On Thursday 19 October 2006 22:06, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> FYI, this change adds 32 bytes to btx leaving 139 bytes free, according
> to btxld(8). As you probably all know, and just as a reminder, size in
> boot2 is at a premium -- it can't go over 8192 bytes as this is the
> boot
Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
[...]
Indeed I recently ran into this myself. Certain 1U machines which I
acquired had problems booting from USB CDROM. I traced this back to the
USB BIOS trying to LGDT and causing a general protection fault in vm86
mode. I worked around this by PXE booting them on a pr
> Hi all,
>
> FYI, this change adds 32 bytes to btx leaving 139 bytes free, according
> to btxld(8). As you probably all know, and just as a reminder, size in
> boot2 is at a premium -- it can't go over 8192 bytes as this is the
> boot-sector limit in the BSD disk-label.
>
> Dominic Marks wro
Hi all,
FYI, this change adds 32 bytes to btx leaving 139 bytes free, according
to btxld(8). As you probably all know, and just as a reminder, size in
boot2 is at a premium -- it can't go over 8192 bytes as this is the
boot-sector limit in the BSD disk-label.
Dominic Marks wrote:
John Bald
John Baldwin wrote:
Hmm, are you willing to test a change that should fix that? If so, try
http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch You'll need to do
a 'make clean && make && make install' in /sys/boot after applying, and if
the make install suceeeds, do a 'bsdlabel -B ad0s1' (r
John Baldwin wrote:
>
> Hmm, are you willing to test a change that should fix that? If so,
> try
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch You'll need to
> do
> a 'make clean && make && make install' in /sys/boot after applying,
> and if
> the make install suceeeds, do a 'bsdlabel -B
On Friday 22 September 2006 11:46, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On 22 Sep Dominic Marks wrote:
> > CyberSans AirBort wrote:
> > >i have tested 6.2-BETA and the same problem still appear when i want to
> > >install it into compaq evo desktop; BTX HALTED.
> > Go into the BIOS, disable BIOS DMA transfers
On Friday 22 September 2006 10:39, Dominic Marks wrote:
> CyberSans AirBort wrote:
> > hello guys, sorry if i send email to wrong address.
> >
> > i have tested 6.2-BETA and the same problem still appear when i want to
> > install it into compaq evo desktop; BTX HALTED.
> >
> > like previous vers
hello dominic. sorry for not updating. actually i have solve that matter.
1. changing the HDD from western digital to maxtor
2. change the BIOS DMA transfer inside the bios.
and now it works and my freebsd running fine. thank you for your email.
see ya
cybersans
Go into the BIOS, disable BI
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:46:49 +0200
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Still remains the question on why FreeBSD is not able to boot when bios
> DMA transfers are set set to on, while XP and linux just do what they're
> supposed to. It should not be necessary i.m.h.o.
What about filing a
dick hoogendijk wrote:
On 22 Sep Dominic Marks wrote:
CyberSans AirBort wrote:
i have tested 6.2-BETA and the same problem still appear when i want to
install it into compaq evo desktop; BTX HALTED.
Go into the BIOS, disable BIOS DMA transfers **. After that it will boot
normally. I have about
On 22 Sep Dominic Marks wrote:
> CyberSans AirBort wrote:
> >i have tested 6.2-BETA and the same problem still appear when i want to
> >install it into compaq evo desktop; BTX HALTED.
> Go into the BIOS, disable BIOS DMA transfers **. After that it will boot
> normally. I have about 20 EVOs, which
CyberSans AirBort wrote:
hello guys, sorry if i send email to wrong address.
i have tested 6.2-BETA and the same problem still appear when i want to
install it into compaq evo desktop; BTX HALTED.
like previous version, it stucks when booting from cd on the first
installation. i have follow so
hello guys, sorry if i send email to wrong address.
i have tested 6.2-BETA and the same problem still appear when i want to
install it into compaq evo desktop; BTX HALTED.
like previous version, it stucks when booting from cd on the first
installation. i have follow so many discussion around the
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