Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:04:35 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: David Paul Zimmerman <dpz@ack.berkeley.edu>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4/6.0 on Virtual PC 7? Message-ID: <200511101604.36848.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200511102046.jAAKkxDE057999@fire.jhs.private> References: <200511102046.jAAKkxDE057999@fire.jhs.private>
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On Thursday 10 November 2005 03:46 pm, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > David Paul Zimmerman wrote: > > Hi, all. Both FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 are giving me strange behavior when > > I think you'r right, you don't have a hardware issue there (despite > this being on hardware@) but have hit a difference between 4.x & > 5.x CDROMs. (A difference between El Torito & not as I recall, > they changed between 4 & 5 to match the modern drift of BIOS boot > methodology) Maybe searching "man boot" & searching El Torito method > on freebsd.org web search box will bring you more. Good Luck Those changes only affect the bootstrap to get /boot/loader running, they shouldn't affect what the kernel thinks about the CD at all. I'm curious if the 5.x kernel is finding a CD-ROM drive at all? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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