BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM

Bruce M. Simpson bms at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 22 00:10:10 UTC 2007


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. I see the same issue with FreeBSD's pxeboot and the PXE 
client in Etherboot.

Regards,
BMS


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