Re: BTX on USB pen drive

On Saturday 08 March 2008 04:29:25 pm Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:11:54 -0500

John Nielsen <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Success! I was able to boot my laptop from my USB stick built with
the btx_real patch (after I modified hunk 1 to work with the 7-STABLE
sources). Using the same stick on a different (Acer) laptop I was

Interesting. Which Acer model is that?
The laptop I have troubles booting from usb is an Acer Aspire 5672.
I boot from an usb hard drive, not a memory stick, but that shouldn't
make a matter, right?

I wouldn't think so. The Acer here (an Aspire 5520) won't even boot from
the internal CD with a regular ISO install disk. I haven't tried any
other approaches except for the USB stick with jhb's patch earlier today.

able to get farther in the boot than previously--it won't even boot
from a standard CD, but with the stick it got to the menu (and THEN
did a btx register dump, but it didn't loop/scroll).

In case anyone (like Torfinn) is interested, I'm attaching my
modified patch. If you already applied jhb's patch then you should be
able to just cut out the first hunk from mine and apply it.

Thanks.
I already used the latest revision (1.45) of btx.S and applied jhb's
patch to that. Unfortunately, it didn't work. See another message in
this thread. Am I correct in thinking that your modified patch wouldn't
help me?

Correct. (unless the unpatched version from -HEAD introduced a regression,
but I think they're pretty similar).

JN

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