Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:12:37 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 is now available Message-ID: <200310310512.h9V5Cb1j011129@intruder.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <200310310305.h9V34ueF033773@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200310310305.h9V34ueF033773@gw.catspoiler.org>
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--==_Exmh_-1877686951P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Don Lewis wrote: > 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 ... Not always. We went through this dance once before on both the 4.X and 5.X series. The last time we visited this question we had never seen BIOSes that couldn't deal with emulation booting. So we decided to stick with emulation booting with 4.X and, starting with 5.X, use non-emulation booting because it allows us to use the generic kernel when booting from CD-ROM. I'm pretty sure we have support for both types of bootable CD-ROMs in the bootstraps and the release building code on both 4.X and 5.X. Anyone who builds their own releases ought to be able to generate either type. It's not a goal of the FreeBSD Project to actually do this, but a vendor could do this as a value-add if they were so inclined. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1877686951P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE/oe9F2MoxcVugUsMRAoUZAKCjdnDqygoRyNsIlZ0QjQ+AnpPRGgCgudFf eTgG3+YwVFzgFixnYBC7mbM= =kzLj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1877686951P--
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