From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 21:12:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C6A16A4CE; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:12:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from eth0.b.smtp.sonic.net (eth0.b.smtp.sonic.net [64.142.19.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE33F43FBF; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:12:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org) Received: from intruder.kitchenlab.org (adsl-64-142-31-106.sonic.net [64.142.31.106])h9V5Ccuf001969 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:12:38 -0800 Received: from intruder.kitchenlab.org (bmah@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h9V5Cb1j011129; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:12:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org) Message-Id: <200310310512.h9V5Cb1j011129@intruder.kitchenlab.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Don Lewis In-Reply-To: <200310310305.h9V34ueF033773@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200310310305.h9V34ueF033773@gw.catspoiler.org> Comments: In-reply-to Don Lewis message dated "Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:04:56 -0800." 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_-1877686951P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:12:37 -0800 Sender: bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org cc: strick@covad.net cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 is now available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 05:12:41 -0000 --==_Exmh_-1877686951P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Don Lewis wrote: > Can older machines boot from Non-Emulated El-Torito CDs? If not, it > might be nice to be able to generate CDs of either flavor. This would be > painful for FreeBSD CD vendors, though ... Not always. We went through this dance once before on both the 4.X and 5.X series. The last time we visited this question we had never seen BIOSes that couldn't deal with emulation booting. So we decided to stick with emulation booting with 4.X and, starting with 5.X, use non-emulation booting because it allows us to use the generic kernel when booting from CD-ROM. I'm pretty sure we have support for both types of bootable CD-ROMs in the bootstraps and the release building code on both 4.X and 5.X. Anyone who builds their own releases ought to be able to generate either type. It's not a goal of the FreeBSD Project to actually do this, but a vendor could do this as a value-add if they were so inclined. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1877686951P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE/oe9F2MoxcVugUsMRAoUZAKCjdnDqygoRyNsIlZ0QjQ+AnpPRGgCgudFf eTgG3+YwVFzgFixnYBC7mbM= =kzLj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1877686951P--