Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:39:33 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd 7.2-RC boot problem Message-ID: <B70939F5-C083-4B31-B9E4-44F58DF28F7E@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <1241017310.68402.133.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <49F5BB24.2090206@nlink.com.br> <1240844716.59908.14.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <49F5E723.6040700@nlink.com.br> <1240852596.59908.33.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <49F6FC02.7060803@nlink.com.br> <1241006514.38254.12.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <49F8458D.7000607@nlink.com.br> <49F86536.9080604@nlink.com.br> <1241017310.68402.133.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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On 29 April 2009, at 08:01, Ken Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:33 -0300, Paulo Fragoso wrote: >> Hardware: >> MB: Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2 >> acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22NS30/1.01> at ata3-master SATA150 >> >> ISO MEDIA BOOT >> 7.2-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso DVD-RW OK >> 7.2-RC2-i386-livefs.iso CD-RW OK! >> 7.2-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso CD-RW OK >> 7.2-RC2-i386-disc1.iso CD-RW,CD-R FAILS > > Thanks, greatly appreciate all the testing. > > As part of looking into this I went looking for another Gigabyte > motherboard and through the past 2 days was able to test the same > set of > things with the same results. So far I haven't been able to reproduce > this on anything but Gigabyte. This is such a bizarre problem I > really > needed someone else to confirm so thank you very much. Since there > is a > workaround I don't think I'll hold the release for this problem but we > will need to mention this in the Errata (and possibly the announcement > itself). I have a number of different test PCs available. 7.2-RC2 Live FS boots just fine on all. Disk 1 is not recognized as bootable on any of them. I can provide any specs that might help. They are all quite different. Mostly older units. Newest is probably about 5 years old.
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