Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:47:51 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM??? Message-ID: <19970603084751.HG55689@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <8811.865298385@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Jun 2, 1997 17:39:45 -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970602192817.1126A-100000@why> <8811.865298385@time.cdrom.com>
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Speaking of problems with the bootable CD-ROM. If you boot off the first > > disk, you can't insert the fixit cdrom (cd drawer is locked). And you > > can't boot off the fixit cdrom.... *sigh* maybe next time. > > "Interesting." :-) > > I didn't think the boot process would lock the CDROM this way; Because you didn't read El Torito. :) You gotta call int 0x13, fn 4b00 (``Terminate disk emulation'') in order to give up this silly idea that the CD-ROM is drive A: now... Mine isn't locked however. Perhaps it's BIOS-dependant. > I suppose > I could make the 2nd CD bootable without too much trouble. Would people > prefer that? I suppose you've got more trouble with this... Well, you could stuff a sysinstall floppy on it, but i'd suggest waiting until my CD-ROM boot code is complete. This allows to boot /kernel directly. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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