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Date:      Fri, 01 Dec 1995 12:33:40 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "Lars Jonas Olsson" <jonas@mcs.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, jonas@mcs.net
Subject:   Re: Bootable ATAPI CDROM 
Message-ID:  <1908.817850020@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Dec 1995 08:00:27 CST." <m0tLW0p-0005y3C@mars.mcs.com> 

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If I can do it in a fairly unobtrusive way then I certainly might
consider it, but I'd have to know the nitty-gritty details behind
genning a bootable CD image! :-(

						Jordan

> Hi,
>  An interesting detail I noticed in the manual for a new Pentium board.
> The BIOS (Phoenix) has as a CD option (together with types 1-39, user,
> and auto). It says the CD option is used for bootable IDE CDROM. Selects
> CD option for booting from bootable ATAPI IDE CDROM.
>  I knew that this was posssible (Our Compaq can boot from SCSI CDROM),
> but didn't know that this BIOS option was available in general clones.
>  Is there any SCSI controller that has bootable CDROM support?
>  Any plans for bootable FreeBSD CD? 
> 
> Jonas




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