Bug 134690

Summary: 7.2 disc1, bootonly and livefs cds not recognized as bootable
Product: Base System Reporter: Joe <fbsd1>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-i386 (Nobody) <i386>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Joe 2009-05-19 01:10:01 UTC 
Running 7.1 which was installed from disc1 disk. Trying to do clean install of 7.2 from desc1. This computer has run every release of Freebsd since 4.0. Downloaded disc1 and bootonly and livefs iso files because the 7.2 release announcement says this.

Note: late in the testing cycle it was discovered some machines do not recognize
the i386 disc1 as bootable (they just fall through to booting off the next boot device). All affected machines did see the other discs as bootable. If you have a machine with that problem booting off either bootonly or livefs and then swapping in disc1once sysinstall starts should work.

In my case I have the described booting problem with disc1, livefs and the bootonly disk.

These are bootable on different computer so know they are good.
Comment 1 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-05-19 18:44:30 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

As you mention yourself, this is something known, no PR is needed.
Comment 2 Joe 2009-05-20 00:02:12 UTC 
But what is not known is that using bootonly or livefs cd does NOT work as
you report in the release notes.
There is something wrong and taking a closed MIND approach is not going to
fix it.