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Date:      Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:06:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" <bazilio@monitord.vrn.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fw: Bootable FBSD CD-ROM ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808120005470.28795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000601bdc433$2e1bec40$0a64a8c0@baz_station.monitord.vrn.ru>

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On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Vasily V. Grechishnikov wrote:

>                                          Hi !
> 
>     Few months ago I burning  custom FreeBSD installation 
> CD-ROM (2.2.6-STABLE, 3.0-CURRENT + some ports).
> I wished to make it bootable. But I failed. Why ?
>     On box running 3.0-CURRENT from mid-April 98, 
> I did the following steps:
>         cd /sys/i386/boot/cdboot
>         make
>         cp boot.img ~/CD-Draft
>         cd ~/CD-Draft
>         mkisofs .... -b boot.img CD-Draft/data
> 
> After successfull creation of CD I try to boot from, I had the
> following:
> 
>     Your BIOS int 0x13 extensions seems to be disabled.
>     int 0x13 yielded an error.
> 
> This error condition may occured only if fails
> /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/bios.S:getbootspec functions.
> Is it broken or I misunderstood some things ? 

Does your BIOS actually support booting a CD?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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