Announcing FreeSBIE GMV

[Oliver Adler]

Hi,
I did some more experiments:

... FAILURE ... messages appear ONLY if I try to boot from
CD-RW. I suspected, that CD-RW was not erased properly and
tried to erase every sector on the medium. This didn't
change the behaviour.

Booting with ACPI disabled (option 2 during boot) solved the
problem.

On the sme system I can use a CD-R without any problems and
with ACPI enabled.

Best Regards

Oliver

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:45:25PM +0200, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:55:18PM +0200, Oliver Adler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I tried the image and was really impressed. WOW!. Thank you!
> 
> Thank you for having tried GMV. 
> 
> > I personally would like to see shells/zsh.
> 
> Ok. I'll put zsh in the "to-add" list.
> 
> > 
> > My first try was to use a CD-RW to test the image. This
> > didn't work out and showed repeatedly the following errors
> > during boot time:
> > 
> > acd1: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x02 ascq=0x00 
> > ...
> > acd1: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x44 ascq=0x00 
> > 
> > and subsequent couldn't populate the filesystems (cpio complained).
> 
> When does this happen exactly? Was the image correctly burned? 
> I get the same messages on my laptop when the system is trying to
> mount root from /dev/cd9660/FreeSBIE, but then the boot process
> continues without any additional issue and these errors seems not to
> cause anything. I don't know if it's related, but you can try
> disabling ATAPI DMA, but, if you do, expect a slower boot-time (I
> don't know how much slower..).
> 
> Best Regards

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