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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:26:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        qa@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New cdboot ISO available
Message-ID:  <200201102326.g0ANQQ241566@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020110015947.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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>Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:59:47 -0800 (PST)
>From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>

>A new experimental CD bootstrap was recently added to -stable for the i386
>architecture that allows the full contents of the CD to be used when booting.
>....

>The release engineering team would like feedback as to roughly how many
>machines do not work with the new bootstrap utility as well as how many
>machines do work.  If most machines work with the new bootstrap, then we may
>switch to using the new bootstrap on the release ISO images.

>....

>Please test this ISO and provide feedback to the -stable or -qa lists thanks.

I have tested it on 4 machines (so far); it worked on 3:

* IBM Intellistation (686810U)		OK
* IBM ThinkPad (600E)			OK
* IBM ThinkPad (770Z)			OK
* NEC Versa (6030X)			Failed

Messages from the failure:

CD Loader 1.01

Building the boot loader arguments
Read Error: 0x01
Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor


[Note that I had (successfully) upgraded the Versa to 4.5-RC1 with the
"normal" ISO image earlier in the day.  And the machiine is likely old
and slow enough that it's of little interest.]

Cheers,
david
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