From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Dec 20 12:16:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C00F37B416 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25490 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2001 20:16:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Dec 2001 20:16:19 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011220033504.K27392@windriver.com> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:16:02 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Murray Stokely Subject: Re: Should we test cdboot on 4.5 RC's? Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Dec-01 Murray Stokely wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:46:14PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >> Hmm, does anyone else think it might be worthwhile to MFC the new cdboot >> replacement for the broken cdldr code in 4.x. Then for the RC's we chould >> ship >> two versions of each ISO, one with cdboot as the bootable image and the >> other >> with boot.flp so we can have people test it and see how if cdboot works on >> most >> computers or not? The only difference in the ISO's is what image is set as >> bootable on the mkisofs command line, other than that the images would both >> have the same exact file contents. This might be a good way to test out how >> widespread support of no emulation booting is so we can think about >> switching >> to it by default on the ISO's. > > Hey John, can you explain to us what kind of machines this will fix? > How many machines have you tested this on? We should have Chern do > some more testing of this stuff while we still have access to the WRS > hardware. There are some BIOSen that don't grok the 2.88 MB images, although they might not support no emulation booting as well. However, NT4 and later require no emulation booting so this should work ok on most machines. The biggest thing this changes is that it makes the setup of CD booting cleaner. It also allows us to use a full GENERIC kernel during install, instead of having to trim certain drivers from the mix so that the kernel fits on a floppy. This means that a CD install support more drivers out of the box. > - Murray -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message