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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2007 02:09:58 +0200
From:      Adriaan <fbsd.adriaan@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom
Message-ID:  <74c3ddc40705301709s516f733ara0cf180a564bf149@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200705302246.26750.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On 5/30/07, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:

> int=0000000d ...
> ...
> BTX halted

According to John Baldwin in
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028774.html
:

"Because other OS's run the BIOS in real mode, and we run it in vm86 mode and
we don't emulate enough instructions in vm86 mode for the Compaq/HP BIOS."

In another post
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028773.html
he refers to a patch at
http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch

=Adriaan=



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