From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 20:55:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA5C16A4D0 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:55:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A47E43D1F for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:55:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:55:25 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 87B395D09; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:55:25 -0700 (PDT) To: "Nicholas Blasgen" In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:55:35 PDT." <20040608085545.35375CFF@windmill.garlic.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:55:25 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20040609205525.87B395D09@ptavv.es.net> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:55:32 -0000 Not to sound like a broken record, but isn't 5.3 a good time to flip the default on this to use packet mode boot and make the option "-o ancient_bios" (or something similar). There are few systems that will ever run V5 that don't support packet booting today and the frequency of this being reported is going higher and higher as big disks become more common. Let's change this now...before the pain gets worse. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634