From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 07:53:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9146904 for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 07:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B4458E for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 07:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78533AE82 for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 00:53:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Two impertinent questions Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 00:53:13 -0700 Message-ID: <221.1399708393@server1.tristatelogic.com> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 07:53:24 -0000 1) Whose responsibility is it, if anyone's try to insure that the FreeBSD release disks (e.g. FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) can actually be successfully booted when using various makes and models of CD/DVD/Blu-Ray optical drives? I ask because trying just now I found that booting that release CD resulted in utter failure on two out of three optical drives on one particular system I have... and it seems to me that I have seen similar sorts of alleged "READ ERRORs" in the past, where FreeBSD just refuses to work properly with various optical drives that other OSes don't seem to have any problems at all with. 2) In what release did FreeBSD's support for GPT partition tables actually start working correctly? I ask because I have a hard drive that gives all indications of having been well and properly partitioned, using a GPT scheme, under Gparted, and that contains one GTP partition, also created using Gparted, and whereas FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE seems to correctly see the partition in question, my old 9.1-RELEASE system is utterly befuddled by it, and claims that there exists a "corrupted" GPT partition table on the drive in question. This has not been a good day.