From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 5 14:26: 4 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FFC37B416; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:25:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id XAA04991; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 23:25:56 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA5MMxY62524; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 23:22:59 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 23:22:59 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot Makefile cdboot.s Message-ID: <20011105232259.B80377@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <200111040324.fA43OGQ42308@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200111040324.fA43OGQ42308@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 07:24:16PM -0800 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 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As John Baldwin wrote: > This is a new CD bootstrap utility designed to replace cdldr. > According to the El Torito standard for CD booting, a CD may boot > in "No emulation" mode without using a floppy image. I once wrote such a bootstrap, or rather: i tried. None of the available BIOSes by that time actually supported no emulation booting... Do you know whether the situation has improved drastically since? (You can still find the old traces in /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/cdboot, but probably only the later emulation boot version. By that time, i wrote all of this for Plutotech. But Ken later told me that they gave up that route.) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message