Re: 4.9 is now available
From: Scott Long (scottl_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 10/30/03
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:49:04 -0700 To: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net>
Dan Strick wrote:
> It turns out that 4.9 CD, which produces the message
>
> 1. FD 2.88MB System Type-(0f)
>
> and fails to boot correctly, does this on only one of my systems, a
> very new machine with an ATAPI CD drive on a Gigabyte 8KNXP motherboard
> and AWARD BIOS. It is the only bootable CD of perhaps a dozen that
> I have tried on this PC that has failed. For example, the FreeBSD
> 5.1-RELEASE CD boots correctly on this new machine.
>
> The 4.9 CD boots correctly on one of my older machines that has a SCSI
> CD drive connected to an Adaptec 2940AU.
>
> I did not attempted to burn and boot any of the 4.9 pre-release CDs
> or any older FreeBSD release on either machine.
>
5.x uses an entirely different mechanism to make the CD bootable. The
mechanism used in 4.x is similar to what Microsoft used for the Windows
95/98 CD's (Emulated El-Torito), while 5.x uses a similar mechanism as
Windows 2000/XP (Non-Emulated El-Torito). Since Microsoft only requires
support for the second method in order to award the MS logo, I suspect
that support for the first method is starting to die out in mainstream
BIOSes.
Scott
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