From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 08:58:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2186916A4CE; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:58:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (schlepper.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C343543D5A; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:58:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (schlepper [212.12.50.230]) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.12.10/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i5G8uvst047510; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:56:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) In-Reply-To: <40CF54F4.4070201@freebsd.org> References: <40CF54F4.4070201@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <1F0665C8-BF73-11D8-9B03-000A95C893E4@lassitu.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stefan Bethke Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:56:57 +0200 To: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to use a bootable cd on freebsd. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:58:06 -0000 Am 15.06.2004 um 21:58 schrieb Julian Elischer: > If I look on the cdrom I see nothing special. > Certainly no flpooy images or such... I'd guess that it's using the "no emulation" or "native" boot method, where the boot descriptor points to code that gets loaded and executed directly, instead of having an emulated floppy or HD image. Google gives this for a specification: > either way, how can I make this a bootable device of some other form? No idea really; you can certainly extract the boot code from the CD, but you'd have to figure out what the boot code then does... -- Stefan Bethke Fon +49 170 346 0140