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Subject: Re: BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:39:02 +0000
"Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Peter Losher wrote:
> > In both cases, once the USB CD-ROM started loading either 6.1 or
> > 6.2, I get a BTX halt:
> >   
> Known issue. The btx code can't deal with BIOSes which want to enter 
> protected mode to service the I/Os. USB support in most BIOSen
> generally does this.

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...)
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway