From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 30 23:19:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11391 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA11377 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id IAA25371; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 08:17:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA04737; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:50:06 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970701075006.MG05597@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:50:06 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: ahd@kew.com (Drew Derbyshire) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEC and bootable CD-ROMS References: <199707010211.WAA04523@pandora.hh.kew.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707010211.WAA04523@pandora.hh.kew.com>; from Drew Derbyshire on Jun 30, 1997 22:11:52 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Drew Derbyshire wrote: > Any > clue how standard their method is and it is worth including the > proper boot blocks on the FreeBSD CD-ROM? It's a little more than just a few blocks of a CD. There's a so- called standard called `El Torito'. Once you dig into it, you'll learn that it's basically the same sort of crappy definitions you can find all over the place in the PeeCee world. They went great lengths about totally unimportant things, forgot quite a number of very important things, and finally, you won't ever find a vendor who's even implementing everything that's standardized I) at all, and II) correctly. Making a bootable installation CD-ROM is not too difficult, and Jordan did it for FreeBSD >= 2.2.1. Making a bootable `generic filesystem' CD-ROM turned out to be more trouble, and i've still not yet finished debugging all the work in this area i did so far. -- 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. ;-)