From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 11 16:29:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC55B37B431 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:29:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 16PC34-00030y-00 for stable@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 19:29:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 19:29:25 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available Message-ID: <20020112002925.GB8227@pir.net> Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin probably said: > 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 booting. The method we currently uses relies on the BIOS > emulating a floppy drive from a floppy image file on the CD. This > limits the size of the kernel that we can 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. However, not > all BIOS's that support the older method support this newer method > of CD booting. How is this iso created ? I'd be interested to know if something like mkisofs supports it and what the method is called. > The release engineering team would like feedback as to roughly how many > machines do not work with the new bootstrap utility as well as how many > machines do work. If most machines work with the new bootstrap, then we may > switch to using the new bootstrap on the release ISO images. > Please test this ISO and provide feedback to the -stable or -qa > lists thanks. Works just fine on; System Board P5BV+/3 rev. B+ Intel SE440BX-2 MSI 694D Pro-@IR Dual (VIA 694X based) Sony F430 laptop ABit BF6v2 Adaptec AHA-3940UW in an ABit KA7. Which is all the machines I can get my hands on right now. P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message