Re: 4.9 is now available

From: Dan Strick (strick_at_covad.net)
Date: 10/30/03

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    Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:08:52 -0800 (PST)
To: scottl@freebsd.org

    Scott Long wrote:
    >
    > 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.

    Some possibly relevant/confirming data points:
      1) My Win98 CD fails to boot on my new machine.
      2) My Win98SE CD boots correctly.
      3) My WinXP CD boots correctly.

    This could prove very inconvenient for a lot of people who are
    now buying new machines and hope to run FreeBSD 4.9 because it
    has better support for modern motherboard devices. I tested
    4.9-prerelease support for all of my motherboard devices, but
    it never occurred to me to test the CD bootstrap.

    Dan Strick
    strick@covad.net
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