From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 12 14: 7:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mikea.ath.cx (okc-65-30-192-11.mmcable.com [65.30.192.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B25B137B41E; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:07:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mikea@localhost) by mikea.ath.cx (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g0CM7Ml58705; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:07:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mikea) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:07:22 -0600 From: mikea To: John Baldwin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available Message-ID: <20020112160722.A58690@mikea.ath.cx> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:59:47AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:59:47AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > A new experimental CD bootstrap was recently added to -stable for the i386 > architecture that allows the full contents of the CD to be used when booting. > The method we currently uses relies on the BIOS emulating a floppy drive from a > floppy image file on the CD. This limits the size of the kernel that we can > boot off of. The new CD bootstrap allows a full GENERIC kernel to be used when > booting off of a CD, allowing more drivers to work out of the box. However, > not all BIOS's that support the older method support this newer method of CD > booting. Worked fine booting from a no-name CDROM drive on my Soyo SY-7VCA motherboard with PIII-866 CPU and 256 MBytes RAM. Cool tool! -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message