From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 12 13: 5:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C961737B420; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:05:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01250; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:05:32 -0800 Message-ID: <3C40A51B.1030201@owt.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:05:31 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 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. I have a ECS K7S5A that booted but sysinstall was completely hung. I had to hit the reset button to reboot. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message