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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:54:44 -0500
From: Andrew Herdman <andrew@why.whine.com>
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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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        FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: cdrom boot?
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Greg Lehey wrote:

> 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
> 

At the least it would be very cool to just have a floppy with boot code on
it to bring up a bootable cd.  This would solve a lot of space issues when
it comes to installing.  Imagine a kernel with all the toys in it instead
of 'the usual'.

Andrew