Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:07:22 -0600 From: mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available Message-ID: <20020112160722.A58690@mikea.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020110015947.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:59:47AM -0800 References: <XFMail.020110015947.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:59:47AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > A new experimental CD bootstrap was recently added to -stable for the i386 > architecture that allows the full contents of the CD to be used when booting. > The method we currently uses relies on the BIOS emulating a floppy drive from a > floppy image file on the CD. This limits the size of the kernel that we can > boot off of. The new CD bootstrap allows a full GENERIC kernel to be used when > booting off of a CD, allowing more drivers to work out of the box. However, > not all BIOS's that support the older method support this newer method of CD > booting. Worked fine booting from a no-name CDROM drive on my Soyo SY-7VCA motherboard with PIII-866 CPU and 256 MBytes RAM. Cool tool! -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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