BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM

Bruce M. Simpson bms at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 22 21:07:16 UTC 2007


Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> I hope  I don't need to test grub. Everytime I try it, I end up having
> to recover something (probably my fault). I'm really not comfortable
> with grub.
>   
Until the btx code is rewritten to deal with BIOS routines which expect 
to be run from within real mode and not vm86 mode, GRUB is probably the 
most convenient workaround for the issue.

Regards,
BMS


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