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Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM??? 
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 12:02:32 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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