Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:22:26 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <200803081722.26977.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20080308222925.b1f7e9b7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <200803081611.54820.lists@jnielsen.net> <20080308222925.b1f7e9b7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Saturday 08 March 2008 04:29:25 pm Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:11:54 -0500 > > John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote: > > Success! I was able to boot my laptop from my USB stick built with > > the btx_real patch (after I modified hunk 1 to work with the 7-STABLE > > sources). Using the same stick on a different (Acer) laptop I was > > Interesting. Which Acer model is that? > The laptop I have troubles booting from usb is an Acer Aspire 5672. > I boot from an usb hard drive, not a memory stick, but that shouldn't > make a matter, right? I wouldn't think so. The Acer here (an Aspire 5520) won't even boot from the internal CD with a regular ISO install disk. I haven't tried any other approaches except for the USB stick with jhb's patch earlier today. > > able to get farther in the boot than previously--it won't even boot > > from a standard CD, but with the stick it got to the menu (and THEN > > did a btx register dump, but it didn't loop/scroll). > > > > In case anyone (like Torfinn) is interested, I'm attaching my > > modified patch. If you already applied jhb's patch then you should be > > able to just cut out the first hunk from mine and apply it. > > Thanks. > I already used the latest revision (1.45) of btx.S and applied jhb's > patch to that. Unfortunately, it didn't work. See another message in > this thread. Am I correct in thinking that your modified patch wouldn't > help me? Correct. (unless the unpatched version from -HEAD introduced a regression, but I think they're pretty similar). JN
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