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List: netbsd-port-i386
Subject: Re: Multiboot header license change
From: Andrew Smallshaw <andrews () sdf ! lonestar ! org>
Date: 2009-12-01 16:34:04
Message-ID: 20091201163404.GA14090 () sdf
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 04:55:47PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Andrew Smallshaw wrote:
> >
> >I'm thinking that provides a fresh workaround for the long-standing
> >bug on VIA ITX systems. The old advice (use an old bootloader) is
> >getting trickier a it gets more and more outdated. I know I had
> >plenty of issues getting this 5.0 system installed - from memory I
> >needed the bootblocks from 1.6 and the installer from 4.0 to install
> >5.0...
>
> EDEN/Samuel 2?
>
> dsl@ has just committed a fix for this. I aim to test a backport soon.
Nice one! I had a play with this pulled from the daily build last
night. I built a USB drive installer using boot, bootxx_ffsv1 and
mbr from the daily build and everything else simply copied over
from the 5.0-RELEASE installation CD. No issues to report at all
- it simply works. I haven't tried it on the hard drive since that
is a working system I'd rather leave alone.
In terms of a data point if that is useful this was on an EPIA
ME6000 board.
n2e$ dmesg|grep cpu
cpu0 at mainbus0: IDT/VIA 686-class, 599MHz, id 0x673
I can't tell you how pleased I am by this. They're good little
boards for a certain class of problem and it's nice that they work
properly again.
--
Andrew Smallshaw
andrews@sdf.lonestar.org
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