bug on BTX

[Dominic Marks]

John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> Hmm, are you willing to test a change that should fix that?  If so, try 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch  You'll need to do 
> a 'make clean && make && make install' in /sys/boot after applying, and if 
> the make install suceeeds, do a 'bsdlabel -B ad0s1' (replace ad0s1 with the 
> actual slice you boot from).  I think it should work (I think it was tested a 
> while ago, but boot2 used to not fit, now it does though).  Be warned though 
> that if it doesn't work, you won't be able to boot from your disk.  If that 
> happens and you have a 6.x disc 1 lying around, you can boot into rescue mode 
> and re-run 'bsdlabel' and move boot/loader.old to boot/loader on the root 
> partition to get your system back.  Ideally you'd try this on a system with 
> data you don't care about (i.e., it's ok to just do a reinstall if it is 
> hosed).
> 

Hi John.

I tested the patch on my -CURRENT box, both with the BIOS DMA
enabled and disabled and I can confirm it works successfully.
Test system is was a Compaq EVO D510 CMT desktop.

Thanks John,
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Dominic