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From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." <bsder@allcaps.org>
To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Booting a 4.9 Beta CD on a USB CD/RW?
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Doug White wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone give me some pointers about how to boot a 4.9 Beta CD on a USB
> > CD/RW?  Or, at the very least, tell me that it doesn't work and that I
> > should quit trying.
> 
> This involves having BIOS support to boot USB, and Int13 emulation of USB
> I/O so loader can do its work. Looks like your system doesn't provide
> this.

Well, the BIOS certainly supports CD booting because I can boot RedHat 9.0
flawlessly from the USB CD/RW.

I can't answer about the Int13 emulation, as I have no idea what Linux
does in its boot sequence.  However, either the BIOS supports Int13 and
FreeBSD has a bug, or they figured out a different solution.

-a