Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:05:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cdrom boot? Message-ID: <199611192205.XAA09985@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611191940.NAA06220@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at "Nov 19, 96 01:40:01 pm"
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As Eric L. Hernes wrote: > Yea, I agree. If you look at the `cookbook' document, the bios > interprets a file on the cdrom as a floppy drive. That's the simplest, > and the most kludgy. At a first hack, the install boot image, could > be set up for this and proceed as normal, but I'd be embarrased to > have my name on that hack ;-) :-) Metoo. > get real bootable support complete with boot blocks and such. > Joerg seemed interested in helping out with what he could last time > we talked on it. I just discovered that my hardware didn't support > it so there was really no way to test it. :( Ah, so that's the reason for you disappearing from the surface... anyway, the offer is there: if somebody is seriously interested in writing this, i can get him a copy of all the discussion between Eric and me by that time. Together with the El Torito specs, this should get you a fairly good picture of where to start and how to do it best. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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