From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 22 20:13:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24601 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24572 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:13:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA27433; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:42:27 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA14272; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:42:25 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980723124225.K8993@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:42:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jeff Rogers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: El Torito References: <199807230232.VAA08641@photon.soltec.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807230232.VAA08641@photon.soltec.net>; from Jeff Rogers on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 09:29:47PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 22 July 1998 at 21:29:47 -0500, Jeff Rogers wrote: > On Wednesday, 22 July 1998 at 17:29:55 -0500, Rafael A. Reta > Rodriguez wrote: Well, in fact I thought I wrote it. >> S. Kritikos wrote: (mutilated message reconstituted) >>>> Im considering in upgrading my PC with a CD drive in order to >>>> install freeBSD. How can I be sure that the BIOS conforms to the >>>> "El Torrito" standard? >> >> What is "El torrito"?? > >> El Torito is a chain of pseudo-Mexican restaurants in California and >> possibly elsewhere. They tried it in Texas, but nobody believed >> them. > >> It's also the name of a CD-ROM boot standard that was hacked out on >> the back of an envelope by a group of people eating at El Torito >> one evening. The standard is in keeping with the restuarant. > >> Sorry I don't know anything about how to determine whether the BIOS >> confirms, unless the documentation mentions it (CD-ROM boot is >> currently always El Torito). > > I may misunderstand; but I think you can tell if you have a bootable > CDROM by just going into BIOS settings; go into, in my case, the > second option down, on the left, hit enter, find the "Boot Sequence" > entry. When it's highlighted, hit page down/up all through all the > available options. If you see one listing CDROM first, in order, then > you have a bootable CDROM. Also, if you have an ATAPI CDROM, I > think they're always bootable. My understanding what that S. wanted to buy a new motherboard, so he wouldn't have this luxury. Of course, once you're running, the ultimate test is to actually boot from a CD-ROM :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message