Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:35:04 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Should we test cdboot on 4.5 RC's? Message-ID: <20011220033504.K27392@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011217154614.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:46:14PM -0800 References: <XFMail.011217154614.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:46:14PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > Hmm, does anyone else think it might be worthwhile to MFC the new cdboot > replacement for the broken cdldr code in 4.x. Then for the RC's we chould ship > two versions of each ISO, one with cdboot as the bootable image and the other > with boot.flp so we can have people test it and see how if cdboot works on most > computers or not? The only difference in the ISO's is what image is set as > bootable on the mkisofs command line, other than that the images would both > have the same exact file contents. This might be a good way to test out how > widespread support of no emulation booting is so we can think about switching > to it by default on the ISO's. Hey John, can you explain to us what kind of machines this will fix? How many machines have you tested this on? We should have Chern do some more testing of this stuff while we still have access to the WRS hardware. - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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