Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:08:55 -0500 From: Rick Chisholm <rchisholm@southlandonline.com> To: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX loader issue Message-ID: <201003021408.56386.rchisholm@southlandonline.com> In-Reply-To: <15575F9A-5B0E-4734-8D34-E52D5A9A2A65@elvandar.org> References: <201003011401.05689.rchisholm@southlandonline.com> <201003021356.53796.rchisholm@southlandonline.com> <15575F9A-5B0E-4734-8D34-E52D5A9A2A65@elvandar.org>
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On March 2, 2010 02:03:59 pm Remko Lodder wrote: > On Mar 2, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Rick Chisholm wrote: > > Thanks for the response. > > > > I did not see any PRs specifically mentioning this hardware. I did try > > to submit a bug report, but the reporting tool gave me an error, after > > trying a few times I gave up. > > > > The hardware in question is a new HP DC5850 SFF desktop - AMD Athlon X2 > > 5400, 160GB SATA (Seagate). > > I am not sure what caused that, though, you cannot say for sure that the > BTX loader does not work when you didn't try. It works for most people, but > some systems do not work; given the amount of users versus reports, I think > it's more exception then rule. > > Best regards, > Remko No sure I understand what you mean by "didn't try" - I have tried installing several BSD versions on this hardware all of which fail at the BTX loader, 8.0, 7.2 and 6.4 as well as the 8.0 live CD and PCBSD. I even used dd to image the drive directly from a known working image, same results. Only thing I have got to run has been an older FreeSBIE live CD running BTX version 1.01. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rick Chisholm Manager Information Technology Southland Insurance t. 519-326-4455 x. 4444 f. 519-326-1324 e. rchisholm@southlandonline.com
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