4.9 is now available

[Bob Willcox]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:08:52AM -0800, Dan Strick wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
> >
> > 5.x uses an entirely different mechanism to make the CD bootable.  The
> > mechanism used in 4.x is similar to what Microsoft used for the Windows
> > 95/98 CD's (Emulated El-Torito), while 5.x uses a similar mechanism as
> > Windows 2000/XP (Non-Emulated El-Torito).  Since Microsoft only requires
> > support for the second method in order to award the MS logo, I suspect
> > that support for the first method is starting to die out in mainstream
> > BIOSes.
> 
> Some possibly relevant/confirming data points:
>   1) My Win98 CD fails to boot on my new machine.
>   2) My Win98SE CD boots correctly.
>   3) My WinXP CD boots correctly.
> 
> This could prove very inconvenient for a lot of people who are
> now buying new machines and hope to run FreeBSD 4.9 because it
> has better support for modern motherboard devices.

Seems that they should be able to create the floppy disks and boot from
them still. Not ideal, but should work.

Bob

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