Re: booting df-stable problems

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

::Matthew Dillon wrote:
::
::>     And you need to describe in more detail what is occuring with more
::>     recent CDs.  Your summary doesn't contain enough information to help
::>     us even begin to diagnose the problem.
::I have seen this too - basically system is skipping those CDs like there 
::  are no bootblocks installed. I have seen this on one of my old time 
::DFly test machines (Matsonic MS7112C (featuring Slot1 and Socket 370!) 
::running P3-500 and 384MB) which always worked fine for DFly CDs - but 
::not anymore. Recently (3 weeks ago) I needed DFly live CD in order to 
::restore boot manager, but live CDs did not work. Luckily, I had 
::DFly-stable live CD from around middle of December which worked.
::
::Toma¾
:
:    Hmm.  We need to narrow it down some more.  Could you try using the
:    daily snapshots to narrow down the date range between working and
:    non-working?
:
:    This kinda sounds like a CD build issue.
:
:					-Matt

    I have also created a new snapshot of current which I would like you
    to try.

    fetch ftp://ftp.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/dfly-20050126-current.iso.gz

    If that doesn't work you need to try to narrow down the date range where
    the failure occurred by trying various snapshots.  I looked at the diffs
    between the december snapshot and now and did not see anything that could
    account for the CD boot.  All I can think of at the moment is that it
    might be an issue with the utilities used to build the ISO, or an issue
    with GCC used to build the boot blocks.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>