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Date:      Wed, 07 Nov 2001 08:28:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Eduardo B.Fonseca" <ebf@cwb.fnn.net>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, Hartmann@FreeBSD.ORG, "O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, Henk Wevers <henk@wevers.org>, Larry Platzek <larryp@inow.com>
Subject:   Re: PicoBSD on a bootable CDROM?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011107082852.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011107095647.64A6837B417@hub.freebsd.org>

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On 07-Nov-01 Eduardo B.Fonseca wrote:
> Great reference!
> 
> I will start studying it as well :)

Just so you know, I've just committed a new way of booting off a CD without
using a floppy image for x86.  Basically, you need to grab a loader and cdboot
from -current and stick them along with the other loader bits on a CD in /boot,
and use '-b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot' as part of your mkisofs command line.

You can then just put the kernel and mfsroot.gz on the root directory of the CD.
Be sure to build the ISO with Rock Ridge support however so the loader can find
all of its files properly.

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