From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 2 7:23:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4068D14A14; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 07:23:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrs@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (jrs@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA38304; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 09:23:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jrs@enteract.com) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 09:23:22 -0600 (CST) From: John Sconiers To: Adam Mackler Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating bootable CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <200001021449.JAA10783@barter.dewline.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Look up mkisofs. > I have a couple questions related to booting my FreeBSD > system from a CD-ROM: > First, is "El Torito" the only way to boot from a CD-ROM? > Is there some way to use disklabel to make the ISO9660 > filesystem bootable, so that /boot and /kernel can just > go in the CD-ROM filesystem, rather than being embedded in > the image of a floppy disk? > Second, what is the purpose of the -C boot flag? On the boot(8) > man page is says "boot from CDROM," but I can boot from > a CD (El Torito style) without it. Does it have any use, > possibly in the context of my first question? > Thanks very much in advance for any clues that anyone here has. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message