From owner-freebsd-small Mon Nov 26 11: 7: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC7737B440 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:06:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 24894 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2001 19:06:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Nov 2001 19:06:42 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011126183831.Q47086-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:06:41 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Andrew Gordon Subject: Re: PicoBSD on a bootable CDROM? Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Nov-01 Andrew Gordon wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> >> >> Just so you know, I've just committed a new way of booting off a CD >> >> without >> >> using a floppy image for x86. Basically, you need to grab a loader and >> >> cdboot >> >> from -current and stick them along with the other loader bits on a CD in >> >> /boot, >> >> and use '-b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot' as part of your mkisofs command >> >> line. > > Do you find that non-emulation booting is actually supported on many > machines? Last time I played with it (about a year ago), of the dozen or > so PCs that came to hand, only one would even recognize it as bootable, > and I was never able to get that one to do any more than crash once it had > loaded the boot image (though this may be that my boot image was no good). It's used by NT 4. :) Any machine that has a 'Designed for Windows NT' or 'Designed for Windows 2000 Professional' logo has to do it. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message