From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 08:50:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF99D37B401; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A03843F93; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:50:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2003041715505300200h8h13e>; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:50:53 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3HFoqxV097075; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Message-Id: <200304171550.h3HFoqxV097075@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Toerless Eckert In-Reply-To: <200304142136.XAA28381@faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> References: <200304142136.XAA28381@faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Comments: In-reply-to Toerless Eckert message dated "Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:36:59 +0200." From: "Bruce A. Mah" X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1387794734P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:50:52 -0700 Sender: bmah@employees.org cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot2 broken ? (booting from pst fails) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:50:56 -0000 --==_Exmh_-1387794734P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Toerless Eckert wrote: > > Also, apart > > from your hardware, FreeBSD is quite compatible with the large majority of > > PC hardware. We boot directly off of 3ware ATA RAID controllers where I > > work, so I really think your claims are rather overstated. > > Don't forget that neither 3ware nor promise list FreeBSD as a supported > operating system, both are equally listed in FreeBSDs hardware list, > there's no indication that booting for one of them doesn't work but > that it's supposed to work on the other. Well, if it's as simple as adding a note to the hardware list that booting from pst(4) devices isn't supported, I'm happy to do that. Bear in mind that the poor sucker who does most of the hardware list (yours truly) has fairly pedestrian hardware. I'm always glad to get some help in this department. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1387794734P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+ns1b2MoxcVugUsMRAqkZAKDZT32Z/vcT2XHzCoZ944jj7ehNKQCg4EfY Tonjak+kVWu29TbWK6182fo= =KvxN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1387794734P--