On 2005-09-17 at 06:45:51 Derek wrote: >> P.S: I just tried 5.4-RELEASE on the same X41, and BTX crashes there >> too... :(
> I've seen these identical systems on earlier versions, and documented as > much as I could in: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/72960 Actually, it's more like this PR, since I'm also using an external USB DVD-RW drive: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=85257 Possibly the BIOS does something nasty (i.e. using protected mode) to support booting off USB disks, which causes BTX' exceptions. OTOH, neither OpenBSD's, nor several Linux distro's CD loaders seem to have problems with it. Last note: I've also tried the 6.0-BETA5 bootonly ISO, giving exactly the same result. So no FreeBSD on this laptop for me... :(
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