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From: Adam Mackler <mackler-fb@dewline.com>
Subject: creating bootable CD-ROM
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Hi:

I have a couple questions related to booting my FreeBSD
system from a CD-ROM:

First, is "El Torito" the only way to boot from a CD-ROM? 
Is there some way to use disklabel to make the ISO9660
filesystem bootable, so that /boot and /kernel can just
go in the CD-ROM filesystem, rather than being embedded in
the image of a floppy disk?

Second, what is the purpose of the -C boot flag?  On the boot(8)
man page is says "boot from CDROM," but I can boot from
a CD (El Torito style) without it.  Does it have any use,
possibly in the context of my first question?

Thanks very much in advance for any clues that anyone here has.

Adam Mackler


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