Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Mon May 28 04:05:51 UTC 2007


Rong-en Fan wrote:
> On 5/28/07, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> > Ooh ahh, please sir, can I have some more^Wit? :)
>>
>> I did some googling.. Is this the patch?
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch
>>
>> (Going to try it today anyway :)
> 
> [I'm CC'ing kib@]
> 
> Yes, there is also a loader/pxeboot in the same directory.
> As kib@ told me, do not install this loader on your disk
> which may destroy your data.

I see the binaries, I was thinking of trying one with a USB flash boot 
disk, I'll unplug my actual disks for safety :)

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