Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:18:28 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM??? Message-ID: <19970602221828.GC28593@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <7087.865278152@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Jun 2, 1997 12:02:32 -0700 References: <33c60885.2694307599@w3> <7087.865278152@time.cdrom.com>
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Can the CD boot code look at HD partition table(s) and display a prompt > > if it finds a bootable [BSD] system? If you specify CD boot at the > > prompt, ok; if timeout, boot from HD. > > Uh.. I think there is some confusion about how this works. :-) Well, as some people here might know, i'm working on an alternate solution that's not _that_ crappy (although it wouldn't apply immediately to the installation process, this kind of things looks _exactly_ with what this godd*mned El Torito ``emulation booting'' has been intended for). However, one step after the other, right now, i didn't even consider merging with the regular UFS boot (although i figure it's not too much of a problem, since there's plenty of space on the CD, much more than there is in the low 640 KB of the RAM). So, the initial solution won't have this kind of whistles and bells either, it will just be able to boot /kernel (or another file) from your CD-ROM. The second CD would probably be a good candidate for this feature then... If we add MFS to the kernel options for the kernel that goes there, this makes a self-contained fully operational FreeBSD. -- 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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