FreeBSD 5.4/6.0 on Virtual PC 7?

[John Baldwin]

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?

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