FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Martin <nakal at web.de> wrote:
> Am Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:37:55 -0500
> schrieb Ken Smith <kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU>:
>
>>
>> FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 is now available, the second of the Release
>> Candidates. Unless an as yet undiscovered show-stopper comes along
>> the release itself will be anywhere from a week to two weeks from
>> now.
>
> Hi,
>
> the RC2 livefs CD still does not boot on my P2-350 machine. It works on
> my laptop though. Did something essential change after BETA2 in the boot
> sector? I can still boot a 8.0-CURRENT (december snapshot) livefs CD on
> this old box.
>
> With RC1 and RC2 I only get "Booting CD-ROM... failure." from my BIOS
> (Asus board P2B). Any ideas?
>

1.) Try disabling ACPI
2.) Try hw.ata.ata_dma=0 at the boot prompt.

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Glen Barber

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