Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:09:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." <bsder@allcaps.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a 4.9 Beta CD on a USB CD/RW? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309251706070.32334-100000@mail.allcaps.org> In-Reply-To: <20030925092601.A8717@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > > > Can anyone give me some pointers about how to boot a 4.9 Beta CD on a USB > > CD/RW? Or, at the very least, tell me that it doesn't work and that I > > should quit trying. > > This involves having BIOS support to boot USB, and Int13 emulation of USB > I/O so loader can do its work. Looks like your system doesn't provide > this. Well, the BIOS certainly supports CD booting because I can boot RedHat 9.0 flawlessly from the USB CD/RW. I can't answer about the Int13 emulation, as I have no idea what Linux does in its boot sequence. However, either the BIOS supports Int13 and FreeBSD has a bug, or they figured out a different solution. -a
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