From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 2 10:58:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02058 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02048 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:58:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [192.168.128.47]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA26532; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:58:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from jaguar.vale.com (jaguar.vale.com [192.168.129.46]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29106; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:58:34 -0500 (CDT) From: hal@vailsys.com (Hal Snyder) To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM??? Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 17:58:51 GMT Organization: Vail Systems Message-ID: <33c60885.2694307599@w3> References: <199706021516.LAA21941@lakes.water.net> In-Reply-To: <199706021516.LAA21941@lakes.water.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.0/32.390 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA02052 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:16:38 -0400 (EDT), Thomas David Rivers wrote: > After some experience, I've decided I don't like the bootable CD-ROMs. Same here. Remote reboots get snafued. > Also, I've decided that the CD-ROMs should stay bootable, particularly >for neophyte installations. So, I'll just have to live with it. Yes, bootable CD is a big win. > Does anyone else have a suggestion? Can the CD boot code look at HD partition table(s) and display a prompt if it finds a bootable [BSD] system? If you specify CD boot at the prompt, ok; if timeout, boot from HD. Ok, so it's ugly.