From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Jan 12 20: 0:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2553C37B41A; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:00:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24842; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:00:20 -0800 Message-ID: <3C410652.1020300@owt.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:00:18 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > On 12-Jan-02 Kent Stewart wrote: > >> >>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 >>>floppy image file on the CD. This limits the size of the kernel that we can >>>boot off of. The new CD bootstrap allows a full GENERIC kernel to be used >>>when >>>booting off of a CD, allowing more drivers to work out of the box. However, >>>not all BIOS's that support the older method support this newer method of CD >>>booting. >>> >> >>I have a ECS K7S5A that booted but sysinstall was completely hung. I >>had to hit the reset button to reboot. >> > > Hmmm, that is weird. I assume it doesn't hang with the normal ISO image? It boots the 4.4-release that was part of the 4-cd set just fine. This K7S5a has a DVD player on it for the CDROM. I tried the 4.5-iso on one of my other computers and it ran just fine. I have to go out but when I get back I have two other SiS-735 based computers that are being upgraded so they have W Paul's SiS-900 network update added. They all have CDROM players on them. I will try them when I reboot after installing the results of my latest cvsup. Kent > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message