Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 14:36:54 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot Makefile cdboot.s Message-ID: <XFMail.011105143654.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011105232259.B80377@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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
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