BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM

[Jeremy Chadwick]

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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