Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 11:23:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: luismi1@ibm.net (Luis Miravalles) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot with Creative-Labs CDROM Message-ID: <199601081823.LAA10034@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601071625.QAA15385@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> from "Luis Miravalles" at Jan 7, 96 05:23:00 pm
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> I have the "Official 386BSD Release 1.0" phurcased in 1994. This version > is bootable with Mitsumi or SCSI CD-ROM, but I have a Creative-Labs > CDROM with a Sound Blaster 16. > > Could you tell me if there is a Program/Utility/Drive to boot from > this CD with my CD-ROM ? This is a FreeBSD list, not a 386BSD list. I don't think there is a 386BSD list at all. The way that a boot from a CDROM works is that it must be a device recognized as bootable by the BIOS. Since you are using an interface attached to a sound card, you don't have a BIOS that recognizes the device as a boot contoller. So even if you had a boot program that ran from DOS, you still could not boot from this device without a BIOS-level INT 13 redirector that knew how to talk to the controller. If you are a hardware hacker, you could add support for the device to your INT 13 BIOS and burn yourself some new BIOS ROM's. Basically, you are SOL because of your hardware. "Boot-from-CDROM" is a fluff option in any case. I believe you can make a boot install floppy from the CDROM and boot that instead to get the OS loaded... at least FreeBSD and NetBSD work that way. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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