From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 24 21:47:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E915637B400; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449AC43E65; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6P4l6ZL042923; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:17:08 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Terry Lambert Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3D3F7F1D.DB9576B2@mindspring.com> References: <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> <1027563817.5847.15.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3D3F7373.329CE5EF@mindspring.com> <20020724.215640.26964830.imp@bsdimp.com> <3D3F7F1D.DB9576B2@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 25 Jul 2002 14:17:13 +0930 Message-Id: <1027572436.5847.34.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 14:01, Terry Lambert wrote: > So, given that the install from a CDROM boots from a floppy > image that's faked up by the CDROM drive BIOS, and the image > doesn't include the full boot loader, how exactly is it that > the partial boot loader code acts like the full bootloader > code for accessing the CDROM to load the modules necessary > to access the CDROM? No emulation booting. ie WinNT/2K/etc install. I believe John Baldwin has written the support for it - see my other email about it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message