Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:46:12 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: cdrom boot? Message-ID: <199611191746.SAA00462@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199611191654.KAA04299@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at "Nov 19, 96 10:54:10 am"
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Eric L. Hernes writes: > Peter Childs writes: >> >> There was a decently long thread on this that is probably in >> the archives if you want more pointers/matterial/background to >> help you out. > > I started a thread a couple months back on cdrom booting. Since then > I discovered that even though my motherboard's bios indicates that > they support cdrom booting, they don't. Plus management has lost > interest in booting to CD, for now anyway. I might be able to drum > up a little support for it in the future. Are you talking about your management? > The gist of that thread was that the El-Torito spec was done in > the true pc-hardware style.. a pile of crap. Now why does that sound familiar? > It provides several ways of making a CD bootable, ranging from > `total hackery' to `the right way'. Now doesn't that sound familiar > wrt specs? ;-) Hmm. I don't understand the format of the documents at www.ptltd.com, so I can't read the stuff, but the impression that I got from the c't article was that it was pretty straightforward. They were able to get their stuff to boot, anyway. I still think it would be a good selling point for FreeBSD 2.2 to have directly bootable CD-ROMs. I'm sure the guys at Walnut Creek CDROM would love it, too. Greg
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