From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Oct 14 15:39:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13AA37B401; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ithildin.daemonnews.org (ithildin.daemonnews.org [204.152.186.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5183743E8A; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:39:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisc@daemonnews.org) Received: by ithildin.daemonnews.org (Postfix, from userid 3002) id 75D2017BE91; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ithildin.daemonnews.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F7817BE90; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:39:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Coleman To: qa@freebsd.org, Subject: Re: problem with 4.7 iso (fwd) Message-ID: <20021014153026.K33461-100000@ithildin.daemonnews.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have been getting reports of problems with the FreeBSD 4.7 Release ISOs, such as the ones included below. Are these known issues? Are new ISO images going to be created or is this problem small enough to not require new ISOs and such. -Chris > To: freebsd@ccstores.com (Jim Pazarena) > Copies to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: problem with 4.7 iso > From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) > Date sent: 14 Oct 2002 12:25:31 -0700 > > > freebsd@ccstores.com (Jim Pazarena) writes: > > > > > Not sure if this is the group to report this. I have downloaded > > > the iso's from 4.2 on, without a problem until this. > > > > Correct group. If nobody helps here, then you can usually ask on > > about 4.x on freebsd-stable without getting complaints (say you asked > > here first). But in this case it's highly likely that the problem's > > at your end. > > > > > > After composing the above, I downloaded the mini 4.7 iso, burnt a disk, > > > and once again the boot process stops at text=0x2833b1 ! > > > If it is any comfort, I do have problems with the 4.7 ISOs also. I have > downloaded and burned ISOs from 4.2 through 4.6.2 with no problems. I > have downloaded 3 copies of 4.7 from different sites, and my Nero CD > burning program gives the same error message on all 3. The resulting > CDs are not bootable, and the kernel can not be read when the CDs are > used as data disks. As a check I downloaded another copy of 4.6.2, > and the resulting CD was perfect. > Kjell > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Gregory S. Sutter mailto:gsutter@daemonnews.org Cheap Technologist http://daemonnews.org/ Daemon News, Inc. http://BSDmall.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message