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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