Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 12:02:32 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hal@vailsys.com (Hal Snyder) Cc: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM??? Message-ID: <7087.865278152@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jun 1997 17:58:51 GMT." <33c60885.2694307599@w3>
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> 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. Uh.. I think there is some confusion about how this works. :-) The bootable CD just looks like a floppy, transmogrified into one by the BIOS before FreeBSD's boot code ever gets run. There's no difference between booting the CD and booting a floppy which has been created from the boot.flp image. As I told TDR, if it annoys you then simply turn it off! :) Jordan
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