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Date:      Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:42:49 -0800
From:      bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New cdboot ISO available 
Message-ID:  <200201111842.g0BIgnH07907@bmah.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020111124056.M5464-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> 
References:  <20020111124056.M5464-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>

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If memory serves me right, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > A new experimental CD bootstrap was recently added to -stable for the i386
> > architecture that allows the full contents of the CD to be used when bootin
> g.
> 
> > boot off of.  The new CD bootstrap allows a full GENERIC kernel to be used 
> when
> > booting off of a CD, allowing more drivers to work out of the box.
> 
> 
> Is the Compaq 5is Raid on this new list of drivers included? (CISS driver
> I think).

The ciss driver is supported but it's not a part of the GENERIC kernel.

With the old floppy emulation kernels, the kernel contains a subset of 
the GENERIC devices.  cdboot kernels contain a full GENERIC kernel.

Bruce.



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