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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Eduardo Viruena <eduardo_viruena@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: CD9660_ROOT is missing in 5.0-RELEASE
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On 2003-04-21 00:43, Eduardo Viruena <eduardo_viruena@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi List!
> I'm trying to create a bootable CD with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE.
> I'm just following a recipe given by Etienne de Bruin on:
>
> http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html
>
> But now I find that the kernel option:
>
> option	CD9660_ROOT
>
> is not valid in FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE.  This option
> allowed us to use a CD filesystem as root device.

It's not needed anymore.  You can use cdboot to boot from CD-ROMs
(see /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot).