From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 2 23:53:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11132 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA11127 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA09847 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:53:51 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15099; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:47:51 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970603084751.HG55689@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:47:51 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM??? References: <8811.865298385@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <8811.865298385@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Jun 2, 1997 17:39:45 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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. > > "Interesting." :-) > > I didn't think the boot process would lock the CDROM this way; Because you didn't read El Torito. :) You gotta call int 0x13, fn 4b00 (``Terminate disk emulation'') in order to give up this silly idea that the CD-ROM is drive A: now... Mine isn't locked however. Perhaps it's BIOS-dependant. > I suppose > I could make the 2nd CD bootable without too much trouble. Would people > prefer that? I suppose you've got more trouble with this... Well, you could stuff a sysinstall floppy on it, but i'd suggest waiting until my CD-ROM boot code is complete. This allows to boot /kernel directly. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)