On Monday 14 November 2005 05:23 pm, David Paul Zimmerman wrote: > On Nov 10, 2005, at 1:04 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday ١٠ November ٢٠٠٥ ٠٣:٤٦ pm, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >> David Paul Zimmerman wrote: > >>> Hi, all. Both FreeBSD ٥.٤ and ٦.٠ 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 ٤.x & > >> ٥.x CDROMs. (A difference between El Torito & not as I recall, > >> they changed between ٤ & ٥ 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 ٥.x kernel is finding a CD-ROM drive at all? > > From what I can tell, neither the 5.4 nor the 6.0 kernels see the VPC7 > CD device. 4.11 does, though:
Hmm, do you have a dmesg from a 5.4 or 6.0 boot handy to compare this with? -- 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]"
