From owner-freebsd-small Sat Nov 24 3: 6:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utcorp.net (mail.utcorp.net [146.145.135.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDD037B417; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 03:06:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from shorty30.khome.utcorp.net ([10.200.1.30] helo=utcorp.com) by mail.utcorp.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 167T3k-000KXM-00; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 22:00:52 -0500 Message-ID: <3BFF0B69.D7DCEA39@utcorp.com> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:52:25 -0500 From: Kurt Seel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD on a bootable CDROM? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > On 07-Nov-01 Eduardo B.Fonseca wrote: > > Great reference! > > > > I will start studying it as well :) > > Just so you know, I've just committed a new way of booting off a CD without > using a floppy image for x86. Basically, you need to grab a loader and cdboot > from -current and stick them along with the other loader bits on a CD in /boot, > and use '-b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot' as part of your mkisofs command line. > > You can then just put the kernel and mfsroot.gz on the root directory of the CD. > Be sure to build the ISO with Rock Ridge support however so the loader can find > all of its files properly. I've never messed with -current, will it be back-ported to -stable? I'de be mighty interested in seeing how it's done, I've been having bad results with the traditional 'emulated floppy' method. Could you elaborate a bit more on the details? > > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message