On Thursday 10 November 2005 03:46 pm, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > David Paul Zimmerman wrote: > > Hi, all. Both FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 are giving me strange behavior when > > I think you'r right, you don't have a hardware issue there (despite > this being on hardware@) but have hit a difference between 4.x & > 5.x CDROMs. (A difference between El Torito & not as I recall, > they changed between 4 & 5 to match the modern drift of BIOS boot > methodology) Maybe searching "man boot" & searching El Torito method > on freebsd.org web search box will bring you more. Good Luck
Those changes only affect the bootstrap to get /boot/loader running, they shouldn't affect what the kernel thinks about the CD at all. I'm curious if the 5.x kernel is finding a CD-ROM drive at all? -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
