Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:04:56 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: strick@covad.net Cc: scottl@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.9 is now available Message-ID: <200310310305.h9V34ueF033773@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <200310301808.h9UI8qaZ000347@ice.nodomain>
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On 30 Oct, Dan Strick wrote: > Scott Long wrote: >> >> 5.x uses an entirely different mechanism to make the CD bootable. The >> mechanism used in 4.x is similar to what Microsoft used for the Windows >> 95/98 CD's (Emulated El-Torito), while 5.x uses a similar mechanism as >> Windows 2000/XP (Non-Emulated El-Torito). Since Microsoft only requires >> support for the second method in order to award the MS logo, I suspect >> that support for the first method is starting to die out in mainstream >> BIOSes. > > Some possibly relevant/confirming data points: > 1) My Win98 CD fails to boot on my new machine. > 2) My Win98SE CD boots correctly. > 3) My WinXP CD boots correctly. > > This could prove very inconvenient for a lot of people who are > now buying new machines and hope to run FreeBSD 4.9 because it > has better support for modern motherboard devices. I tested > 4.9-prerelease support for all of my motherboard devices, but > it never occurred to me to test the CD bootstrap. Can older machines boot from Non-Emulated El-Torito CDs? If not, it might be nice to be able to generate CDs of either flavor. This would be painful for FreeBSD CD vendors, though ...
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