From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 12:02:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694DE106566C for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:02:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from flat.berklix.org (flat.berklix.org [83.236.223.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41458FC18 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:02:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A6E7B.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.110.123]) (authenticated bits=0) by flat.berklix.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n06C1lOn039115; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:01:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n06C1amG093621; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:01:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n06C0QXa052354; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:00:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200901061200.n06C0QXa052354@fire.js.berklix.net> To: stable@freebsd.org From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:43:23 +0100." <20090106094323.GA98633@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:00:26 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.org Cc: Ken Smith , Oliver Fromme , Martin Subject: Re: 7.1 Live Filesystem CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:02:07 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: Erik Trulsson > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:43:23 +0100 > Message-id: <20090106094323.GA98633@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:48:56AM -0500, Ken Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 20:53 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > > > Is the Live Filesystem CD supposed to be bootable? 7.0's was but I > > > can't get the 7.1 disc to boot. It works fine if I boot from CD 1 and > > > then switch. > > > > Yes, it's supposed to be bootable. Works for me. > > > > Which architecture? > > Funnily enough the release announcement said: > > > disc1, disc2, disc3, livefs, docs: disc1 contains the base FreeBSD > system and a few pre-built packages. disc2 and disc3 contain > more pre-built packages. Those three can be burned to CDROM > sized media and should be all you need to do a normal installation. > livefs contains support for entering into a "livefs" based > rescue mode but you need disc1 to do the initial boot first. > docs contains the documentation. > > > implying that the "livefs" CD is not supposed to be bootable. Martin (who confirmed to Doug on this thread, he'd also seen that) previously raised the problem on this same list on a different thread, For more background: First: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-December/047238.html Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available... From: Martin Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:18:13 +0100 To: Ken Smith Cc: freebsd-stable My comment http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-December/047259.html Latest (Thanks Oliver) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047329.html Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:46:42 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200901051946.n05JkgWo039451@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, jhs@berklix.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available... Summary: 2 Boot methods for CDs, not a new problem, been known a long time. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail plain ASCII text. HTML & Base64 text are spam. www.asciiribbon.org