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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:01:33 -0800 (PST)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available
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On 10-Jan-02 David Wolfskill wrote:
>>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.]
Hmm, that's weird. Can you see if the NEC Versa can boot a NT 4 or ME or 2000
CD? Also, how old is the BIOS on the Versa? (And is there a newer version you
can flash onto it?)
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