Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:40:55 -0700 From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available Message-ID: <15423.1927.369160.400912@chlx169.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020110015947.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.020110015947.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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[ On Thursday, January 10, John Baldwin wrote: ] > > A new experimental CD bootstrap was recently added to -stable for the i386 > architecture that allows the full contents of the CD to be used when booting. > The method we currently uses relies on the BIOS emulating a floppy drive from a Here's some more test data John, SUCCESS: Asus P2B-DS (onboard AIC 7890) with the latest 1012B BIOS. I believe the scsi bios is v2.20, but I'd have to read the boot-up messages again to be sure. Worked like a charm from both CD-* devices hanging off the scsi bus. FAILURE: Dell Latitude CPx-J 650 laptop. The BIOS in this sucker I believe was the latest and is "A14" (going from memory--I don't have it in front of me, but I will double check and correct myself on the list if wrong). When I put this CD in the tray (and made sure that it was in the boot sequence) the laptop just "sat there" with a blank screen for approx 20 seconds, then proceed to give me my normal FreeBSD boot0 F1/F2 prompt for booting off the HDD. No error messages, no diagnostic messages, no nothing. I will do further testing with this laptop tonight to make sure I can boot off the 4.5-RC "regular" CD (to make sure my CD hasn't gone south). UNTESTED: I have an Abit BP6 (with the latest BIOS) that I will also check at lunch time. Thanks! -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, CDS - Senior CAD Engineer | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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