booting from SATA DVD-RAM, no go

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Mars G Miro wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Mars G Miro <spry at anarchy.in.the.ph> wrote:
>> Hi guys
>>
>>   It just does:
>> ...
>> Building the boot loader arguments
>> Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
>> Relocating the loader and the BTX
>> ...
>>
>>  Then the screen goes blank. I've tried setting AHCI and unsetting it
>> (IDE mode), still no go. Tried the 7-STABLE / 8-CURRENT (amd64)
>> snapshots from February.
>>
>>  This is on an LG GH22LS40 on a Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H mobo w/ the latest
>> BIOS from their website.
>>
>>  Clues? I'll prolly plug an old CD-ROM just to install FreeBSD on it. Thanks.
>>
>
> rrrrrrrrrr. plugging in an old CD-ROM still gives me the same thing.
>
> Next stop: PXE, or just install FreeBSD on the HD in a separate
> machine altogether ...

This was probably fixed by the most recent commits to 
src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/bioscd.c - they were done within the last couple 
of weeks, so the March snapshot may well have these changes included.

Gavin