BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk

[Peter Jeremy]

On Thu, 2006-Dec-07 00:25:59 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:17:36 -0500
>John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> > I have a laptop (runs FreeBSD / i386) which works ok with the
>> > internal drive, but refuses to boot from an external (usb) hard
>> > drive [1]. I wonder if this fix would help with this problem...
>> 
>> Almost definitely not.
>
>Ok. Any hints on where (and perhaps how) I should report the problem
>with my laptop, in order for it useful enough so that anyone could help
>me debug it?

At what point during the boot process does it die?  If it's late enough
(and you have a serial port), you might be able to setup a serial console.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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