FreeBSD 5.4/6.0 on Virtual PC 7?

[John Baldwin]

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?

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