Re: 4.9 is now available

From: Don Lewis (truckman_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 10/31/03

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    Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:04:56 -0800 (PST)
To: strick@covad.net

    On 30 Oct, 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. I tested
    > 4.9-prerelease support for all of my motherboard devices, but
    > it never occurred to me to test the CD bootstrap.

    Can older machines boot from Non-Emulated El-Torito CDs? If not, it
    might be nice to be able to generate CDs of either flavor. This would be
    painful for FreeBSD CD vendors, though ...
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