Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:54:44 -0500 From: Andrew Herdman <andrew@why.whine.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cdrom boot? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961119195331.810B-100000@why> In-Reply-To: <199611191746.SAA00462@freebie.lemis.de>
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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
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