From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 27 13:23:36 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 1781C37B400; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:23:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D03C043E42; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC512A7D6; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , doconnor@gsoft.com.au, matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf In-Reply-To: <3D3F7F1D.DB9576B2@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:23:33 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020727202333.9AC512A7D6@canning.wemm.org> 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 Terry Lambert wrote: > "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > > : Think "CDROM install". > > > > Dude, what crack are you smoking? How many times to we have to tell > > you. We have a boot loader that knows how to read the kernel from the > > cdrom or scsi or whatever. IT is a tiny increment to also load > > additional modules at that time that support those devices. What's > > the real issue? > > 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? Not true anymore. release/i386/mkisoimages.sh: bootable="-b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot" -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1136 Jul 5 02:20 /boot/cdboot* I believe we still use the old way on RELENG_4, but the support all got MFC'ed. Several release candidates used cdboot for better testing exposure. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message