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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:44:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        qa@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New cdboot ISO available
Message-ID:  <XFMail.020112154412.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C40A51B.1030201@owt.com>

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On 12-Jan-02 Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Hmmm, that is weird.  I assume it doesn't hang with the normal ISO image?

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