Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

Rong-en Fan grafan at gmail.com
Sat May 26 13:28:50 UTC 2007


On 5/26/07, Bruce M. Simpson <bms at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> >
> > I believe this is most likely this issue...
> > http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t3047441.html
> >
> > Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :(
> >
>
> Forgot to Cc: my reply to the list:
>
> kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected systems
> of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I spliced it
> into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked.

It also works on my ThinkPad X60 with 7.x boot cd.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan

> regards,
> BMS


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