Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 19:29:12 -0400 From: Andrew Herdman <andrew@why.whine.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>, Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970602192817.1126A-100000@why> In-Reply-To: <7087.865278152@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, 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. :-) > > The bootable CD just looks like a floppy, transmogrified into one by > the BIOS before FreeBSD's boot code ever gets run. There's no > difference between booting the CD and booting a floppy which has been > created from the boot.flp image. > > As I told TDR, if it annoys you then simply turn it off! :) > > Jordan > Speaking of problems with the bootable CD-ROM. If you boot off the first disk, you can't insert the fixit cdrom (cd drawer is locked). And you can't boot off the fixit cdrom.... *sigh* maybe next time. Andrew
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