miltonott wrote: >>On Sat Dec 1 21:51:05 UTC 2018 CenturyLink Customer wrote: >>> Hello all:Sorry, this old Pentium 4 refurbished test machine has been >>> obstinate >>> during ALPHA, BETA, and now RC.I had a workaround using the BTX bootloader >>> from >>> ALPHA8 and pasted it into BETA3; meanwhile,remastering the .iso disk >>> afterwards. I have booted a FreeBSD-12.0-RC2-i386-bootonly.iso disk on a Pentium 4 without difficulty. For RC2, the "..disc1.iso" looked too big for a 700Mbyte CD. (I haven't tried RC3, but I doubt there is much difference?)
>> miltonott wrote: >> My lord, I send greetings. I have a mind to try >> FreeBSD-12.0-RC3-i386-disc1.iso, >> and willingness to report back my experience. The get-at-able hardware >> gives: >> 686 class Pentium 4 (socket 775), 686 class Celeron (socket 370). > > My guvnor, I have zero writable cd media at this time. I grabbed the dvd > iso: >FreeBSD-12.0-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso. I can say the boot run its course and served >up a >login prompt with considerable aplomb. The contents of /var/run/dmesg.boot >can >be >viewed at ` http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=4625 `. rick ps: For Release candidates, it is probably better to post to freebsd-current@. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
