From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 00:30:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9521065673 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:30:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from flat.berklix.org (flat.berklix.org [83.236.223.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3E68FC0C for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:30:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A6816.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.104.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by flat.berklix.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mBTNs9Nw054779; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:54:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mBTNsAjZ077777; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:54:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBTNqZ7k085292; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:52:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200812292352.mBTNqZ7k085292@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Martin From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:04:20 +0100." <20081228180420.39f914eb@zelda.local> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:52:35 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.org Cc: SDH Admin , 'freebsd-stable' Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:30:47 -0000 Martin wrote: > Am Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:33:25 -0500 > schrieb "SDH Admin" : > > > 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