Bruce M. Simpson wrote: [...]
Indeed I recently ran into this myself. Certain 1U machines which I acquired had problems booting from USB CDROM. I traced this back to the USB BIOS trying to LGDT and causing a general protection fault in vm86 mode. I worked around this by PXE booting them on a private VLAN with most helpful assistance from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can confirm this problem. I can boot from DVD-RW in external enclosure (USB 2.0) on my desktop PC and few others I tested in the past, but can not boot any FreeBSD release on servers in collocation (from the same external DVD-RW). Tested with some Asus server boards and 1U Sun Fire X2100. But these machines can boot from another boot CD I have (Hirens Boot CD, RIP Linux, Ultimate Boot CD, OpenBSD)
I'll be happy if this can be solved in some feature release of FreeBSD, because I managed many servers without internal CD/DVD drive.
I do not understand this part of system well, but let me know if I can provide some more information about systems where I can boot well or where I can not boot FreeBSD from USB CD / DVD.
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