Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:52:35 +0100 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Martin <nakal@web.de> Cc: SDH Admin <admin@stardothosting.com>, 'freebsd-stable' <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available... Message-ID: <200812292352.mBTNqZ7k085292@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:04:20 %2B0100." <20081228180420.39f914eb@zelda.local>
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Martin wrote: > Am Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:33:25 -0500 > schrieb "SDH Admin" <admin@stardothosting.com>: > > > Try burning new cd media and/or try another cd-rom drive if possible, > > if the acpi/dma doesn't work. > > Hi, > > I've tried that already with RC1. I've burned it multiple times and > tried 3 drives. It seems someone removed CD emulation boot from the > livefs CD. It won't work with older PCs anymore. I'm using 8.0-CURRENT > now, but I wanted to give you people a notice. Sometimes a live CD is > useful and perhaps you won't be able to boot it anymore. > > I just realized that the CD is not booting on older PCs only, that's > why noone is really concerned about it here, perhaps thinking that I'm > not able to burn an ISO or something like that. But I can definitely > boot 8-CURRENT livefs without problems, so at least it's not a drive > problem. Nasty ! Even though some of us on lists might know to guess & avoid or ask about this, it seems an un-necessary pain as CDROM is only half full. I recall people got caught last time FreeBSD CDs didnt have both boot methods. Maybe whoever removed the code didnt know that ? Hopefully someone could put it back so FreeBSD doesn't look broken to some machines & people ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail plain ASCII text. HTML & Base64 text are spam. www.asciiribbon.org
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