From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Jan 10 15:26:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2273237B41D for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0ANQQ241566 for qa@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:26:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:26:26 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200201102326.g0ANQQ241566@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available In-Reply-To: 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 >Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:59:47 -0800 (PST) >From: John Baldwin >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 -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org I believe it would be irresponsible (and thus, unethical) for me to advise, recommend, or support the use of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product for any purpose other than personal amusement. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message