From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 14:22:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA10933 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:22:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA10905 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:22:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA08154 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:21:29 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA10496 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:21:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id XAA09985 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:05:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611192205.XAA09985@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cdrom boot? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:05:26 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611191940.NAA06220@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at "Nov 19, 96 01:40:01 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (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 As Eric L. Hernes wrote: > Yea, I agree. If you look at the `cookbook' document, the bios > interprets a file on the cdrom as a floppy drive. That's the simplest, > and the most kludgy. At a first hack, the install boot image, could > be set up for this and proceed as normal, but I'd be embarrased to > have my name on that hack ;-) :-) Metoo. > get real bootable support complete with boot blocks and such. > Joerg seemed interested in helping out with what he could last time > we talked on it. I just discovered that my hardware didn't support > it so there was really no way to test it. :( Ah, so that's the reason for you disappearing from the surface... anyway, the offer is there: if somebody is seriously interested in writing this, i can get him a copy of all the discussion between Eric and me by that time. Together with the El Torito specs, this should get you a fairly good picture of where to start and how to do it best. -- 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. ;-)