From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 3 15:02:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11093 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:02:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11061 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:02:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA04100; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:02:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:02:06 -0500 (EST) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Tomoyoshi ASANO cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About /usr/mdec/cdboot In-Reply-To: <36B42676158.488EASA@mail.use-net.co.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Tomoyoshi ASANO wrote: > When CD booting, some error messages is displayed. > And I tested other machines supported atapi-cdrom booting. > > > (In /usr/sys/i386/boot/cdboot/boot.c) > > Your BIOS int 0x13 extensions seem to be disabled. > > It's impossible to boot a CD-ROM without them. > > (BIOS int 0x13 fn 0x4b01 yielded error ?) > > I'm sorry I don't know 0x13 extensions. > Is /usr/mdec/cdrom supported atapi-cdrom booting ? Check that your BIOS is enabled. It's talking about hooking into the BIOS disk IO routines such that they can access the SCSI device. If you can boot from a hard disk on this controller, then you should be able to boot from a CD-ROM on the same controller, if it supports CD-ROM booting at all. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message