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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:54:33 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <20070122185433.GA65112@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20070122194631.cef384c2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
References:  <45B2AAF8.9010509@isc.org> <45B3F996.8030303@FreeBSD.org> <20070122194631.cef384c2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:46:31PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> 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...)

Does the GRUB bootloader behave this way?  If not (e.g. it works),
then one could use that as an alternative to btx.

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