BTX loader fails via USB-CDROM on some motherboards

[Kostik Belousov]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:37:31PM -0800, Rudy wrote:
> 
> I cannot install FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 on a SuperMicro PDSML motherboard via 
> USB-CDROM drive.
> 
> 
> Here is an example motherboard that is a pain in the butt to install 
> FreeBSD onto:
>  http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3000/PDSML-LN2+.cfm
> 
> Sure this is an old problem... 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=78298+0+archive/2007/freebsd-stable/20070128.freebsd-stable
>  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-May/035447.html
>  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/143730.html
>  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-qa/2006-September/000783.html
> 
> Sure would be nice if someone found fix the 'real mode' 'vm86' problem that 
> plagues FreeBSD install disks but no other OS that I know of.  I am 
> offering a $50 bounty to FreeBSD
>  http://www.freebsd.org/donations/
> if the standard ISO for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE does not have this problem.

Take the http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch
and rebuild the ISO image with the patch.

Code is not ready for inclusion into the CVS.
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