Re: 4.9 is now available

From: Bob Willcox (bob_at_immure.com)
Date: 10/30/03

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To: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net>

    On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:08:52AM -0800, Dan Strick wrote:
    > 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.

    Seems that they should be able to create the floppy disks and boot from
    them still. Not ideal, but should work.

    Bob 

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Bob Willcox           If your happiness depends on what somebody else does,
bob@immure.com        I guess you do have a problem.
Austin, TX                      -- Richard Bach, "Illusions"
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