From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 10:44:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23550 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:44:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23542 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:44:41 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vPuyt-000QrXC; Tue, 19 Nov 96 19:33 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id SAA00462; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:46:12 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611191746.SAA00462@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: cdrom boot? In-Reply-To: <199611191654.KAA04299@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at "Nov 19, 96 10:54:10 am" To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:46:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Eric L. Hernes writes: > Peter Childs writes: >> >> There was a decently long thread on this that is probably in >> the archives if you want more pointers/matterial/background to >> help you out. > > I started a thread a couple months back on cdrom booting. Since then > I discovered that even though my motherboard's bios indicates that > they support cdrom booting, they don't. Plus management has lost > interest in booting to CD, for now anyway. I might be able to drum > up a little support for it in the future. Are you talking about your management? > The gist of that thread was that the El-Torito spec was done in > the true pc-hardware style.. a pile of crap. Now why does that sound familiar? > It provides several ways of making a CD bootable, ranging from > `total hackery' to `the right way'. Now doesn't that sound familiar > wrt specs? ;-) Hmm. I don't understand the format of the documents at www.ptltd.com, so I can't read the stuff, but the impression that I got from the c't article was that it was pretty straightforward. They were able to get their stuff to boot, anyway. I still think it would be a good selling point for FreeBSD 2.2 to have directly bootable CD-ROMs. I'm sure the guys at Walnut Creek CDROM would love it, too. Greg