From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 17 8: 7:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from brunel.uk1.vbc.net (brunel.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8581637B405; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (thomas@localhost) by brunel.uk1.vbc.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9HF7cI24606; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:07:39 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:07:38 +0100 (BST) From: Thomas Dixon To: John Baldwin Cc: Thomas Dixon , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Problems with booting of CD-ROM (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 16-Oct-01 Thomas Dixon wrote: > > I'm trying to make a bootable CD using the cdboot program that come with > > freeBSD in /sys/i386/boot/cdboot. The computer I'm trying to do this on > > definately boots other CDs as it has booted several other CDs. However > > using a CD I've made using mkisofs and cdboot it gives the error; > > > > Your BIOS int 0x13 extensions seem to be disabled. > > It's impossible to boot a CD-ROM without them. > > (BIOS int 0x13 fn 0x4b01 yielded error 1) > > > > I'm using an Asus P5A motherboard, there appears to be no way to enable > > the int 0x13 extensions in the BIOS and there is nothing in the manual > > that refers to these. > > > > Any ideas why this error is coming up or how to fix it? > > Don't use cdboot or cdldr, they don't qutie work yet. :( > > Instead, make a floppy image and use that to boot. > I've tried this and I couldn't figure out the syntax for loader.rc to load the file system from the cd-rom, any ideas? - Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message