From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 22:23:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4532216A41F; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:23:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpz@ack.berkeley.edu) Received: from malcolm.berkeley.edu (malcolm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.206.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CD443D45; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:23:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpz@ack.berkeley.edu) Received: from [128.32.155.51] (soliloquy.Net.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.155.51]) (authenticated bits=0) by malcolm.berkeley.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAEMN5Fl000644 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpz@ack.berkeley.edu) In-Reply-To: <200511101604.36848.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200511102046.jAAKkxDE057999@fire.jhs.private> <200511101604.36848.jhb@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: David Paul Zimmerman Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:23:37 -0800 To: John Baldwin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (malcolm.berkeley.edu [128.32.206.239]); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:23:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4/6.0 on Virtual PC 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:23:09 -0000 On Nov 10, 2005, at 1:04 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday =D9=A1=D9=A0 November =D9=A2=D9=A0=D9=A0=D9=A5 =D9=A0=D9=A3:= =D9=A4=D9=A6 pm, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> David Paul Zimmerman wrote: >>> Hi, all. Both FreeBSD =D9=A5.=D9=A4 and =D9=A6.=D9=A0 are giving me = strange behavior=20 >>> when >> >> I think you'r right, you don't have a hardware issue there (despite >> this being on hardware@) but have hit a difference between =D9=A4.x & >> =D9=A5.x CDROMs. (A difference between El Torito & not as I recall, >> they changed between =D9=A4 & =D9=A5 to match the modern drift of = BIOS boot >> methodology) Maybe searching "man boot" & searching El Torito method >> on freebsd.org web search box will bring you more. Good Luck > > Those changes only affect the bootstrap to get /boot/loader running,=20= > they > shouldn't affect what the kernel thinks about the CD at all. I'm=20 > curious if > the =D9=A5.x kernel is finding a CD-ROM drive at all? =46rom what I can tell, neither the 5.4 nor the 6.0 kernels see the = VPC7=20 CD device. 4.11 does, though: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights=20 reserved. FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 21 17:21:22 GMT 2005 root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium Pro (334.98-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin =3D "Virtual CPU " Id =3D 0x684 real memory =3D 268435456 (262144K bytes) avail memory =3D 255705088 (249712K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc055c000. md0: Malloc disk pcibios: No call entry point npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device=20 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: (vendor=3D0x0000, dev=3D0x0000) at 7.2 chip1: port 0x440-0x44f irq=20= 0 at device 7.3 on pci0 pci0: at 8.0 de0: port 0xec00-0xec7f mem=20 0xfebff000-0xfebfffff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 de0: 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 de0: address 00:03:ff:c7:19:4c orm0: