From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 5 14:37: 6 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6961337B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:36:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 56777 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2001 22:36:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Nov 2001 22:36:55 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011105232259.B80377@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 14:36:54 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Joerg Wunsch Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot Makefile cdboot.s Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Nov-01 Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As John Baldwin wrote: > >> This is a new CD bootstrap utility designed to replace cdldr. >> According to the El Torito standard for CD booting, a CD may boot >> in "No emulation" mode without using a floppy image. > > I once wrote such a bootstrap, or rather: i tried. None of the > available BIOSes by that time actually supported no emulation > booting... Do you know whether the situation has improved drastically > since? (You can still find the old traces in > /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/cdboot, but probably only the later emulation > boot version. By that time, i wrote all of this for Plutotech. But > Ken later told me that they gave up that route.) It was require as part of the NT4 logo program I believe. That is, in order to get a 'Designed for Windows NT' sticker, your BIOS had to be able to do this. I assume it applies for Win2k Professional as well. The test machine I've been using is a rather old Dual PPro 200. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message