Freebsd 7.2-RC boot problem

[Christian Brueffer]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:01:50AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:33 -0300, Paulo Fragoso wrote:
> > Hardware:
> > MB: Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2
> > acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22NS30/1.01> at ata3-master SATA150
> > 
> > ISO                      MEDIA       BOOT
> > 7.2-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso    DVD-RW       OK
> > 7.2-RC2-i386-livefs.iso  CD-RW        OK!
> > 7.2-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso  CD-RW        OK
> > 7.2-RC2-i386-disc1.iso   CD-RW,CD-R  FAILS
> 
> Thanks, greatly appreciate all the testing.
> 
> As part of looking into this I went looking for another Gigabyte
> motherboard and through the past 2 days was able to test the same set of
> things with the same results.  So far I haven't been able to reproduce
> this on anything but Gigabyte.  This is such a bizarre problem I really
> needed someone else to confirm so thank you very much.  Since there is a
> workaround I don't think I'll hold the release for this problem but we
> will need to mention this in the Errata (and possibly the announcement
> itself).
> 

I just got bitten by this on a VIA EPIA-M system.

7.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso doesn't work
7.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso works

- Christian

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