From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 2 16:29:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA19847 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 16:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cicerone.uunet.ca (root@cicerone.uunet.ca [142.77.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19841 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 16:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from why.whine.com ([205.150.249.1]) by mail.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <115212-26335>; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 19:29:19 -0400 Received: from why (why [205.150.249.1]) by why.whine.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01258; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 19:29:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 19:29:12 -0400 From: Andrew Herdman X-Sender: andrew@why To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Hal Snyder , Thomas David Rivers , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM??? In-Reply-To: <7087.865278152@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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 > Speaking of problems with the bootable CD-ROM. If you boot off the first disk, you can't insert the fixit cdrom (cd drawer is locked). And you can't boot off the fixit cdrom.... *sigh* maybe next time. Andrew