Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:59:47 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: New cdboot ISO available Message-ID: <XFMail.020110015947.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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. The release engineering team would like feedback as to roughly how many machines do not work with the new bootstrap utility as well as how many machines do work. If most machines work with the new bootstrap, then we may switch to using the new bootstrap on the release ISO images. Note that this only affects booting directly from the CD. Booting from floppies and then installing off of the CD will work the same with both images. The cdboot image can be found at ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.5-RC1-cdboot.iso The MD5 checksum of the image is: MD5 (4.5-RC1-cdboot.iso) = 294c50cdfe77f51b8224ae9679afeabf This new bootstrap utility is used on Windows NT 4, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 CD's (and probably Windows XP CD's), so if your system has a 'Designed for' sticker featuring one of those operating systems, it will probably work with cdboot. Please test this ISO and provide feedback to the -stable or -qa lists thanks. RC1 x86 cdboot Errata : 1. The kernel configuration tool USERCONFIG does not currently work on the cdboot ISO. Thanks! - The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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