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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:59:13 +0100 (BST)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting from SATA DVD-RAM, no go
Message-ID:  <20090329135724.A13940@ury.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <f12f408a0903280833y15b86f62i2335b237dcce73b2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Mars G Miro wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph> wro=
te:
>> Hi guys
>>
>> =A0 It just does:
>> ...
>> Building the boot loader arguments
>> Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
>> Relocating the loader and the BTX
>> ...
>>
>> =A0Then the screen goes blank. I've tried setting AHCI and unsetting it
>> (IDE mode), still no go. Tried the 7-STABLE / 8-CURRENT (amd64)
>> snapshots from February.
>>
>> =A0This is on an LG GH22LS40 on a Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H mobo w/ the latest
>> BIOS from their website.
>>
>> =A0Clues? I'll prolly plug an old CD-ROM just to install FreeBSD on it. =
Thanks.
>>
>
> rrrrrrrrrr. plugging in an old CD-ROM still gives me the same thing.
>
> Next stop: PXE, or just install FreeBSD on the HD in a separate
> machine altogether ...

This was probably fixed by the most recent commits to=20
src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/bioscd.c - they were done within the last couple=
=20
of weeks, so the March snapshot may well have these changes included.

Gavin
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