Date: 25 Jul 2002 14:17:13 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf Message-ID: <1027572436.5847.34.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3D3F7F1D.DB9576B2@mindspring.com> References: <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> <1027563817.5847.15.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3D3F7373.329CE5EF@mindspring.com> <20020724.215640.26964830.imp@bsdimp.com> <3D3F7F1D.DB9576B2@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 14:01, Terry Lambert wrote: > So, given that the install from a CDROM boots from a floppy > image that's faked up by the CDROM drive BIOS, and the image > doesn't include the full boot loader, how exactly is it that > the partial boot loader code acts like the full bootloader > code for accessing the CDROM to load the modules necessary > to access the CDROM? No emulation booting. ie WinNT/2K/etc install. I believe John Baldwin has written the support for it - see my other email about it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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