From owner-freebsd-small Mon Nov 26 9:43:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6335D37B41B for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23493 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2001 17:43:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Nov 2001 17:43:39 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3BFF0B69.D7DCEA39@utcorp.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:43:26 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Kurt Seel Subject: Re: PicoBSD on a bootable CDROM? Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Nov-01 Kurt Seel wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > >> On 07-Nov-01 Eduardo B.Fonseca wrote: >> > Great reference! >> > >> > I will start studying it as well :) >> >> Just so you know, I've just committed a new way of booting off a CD without >> using a floppy image for x86. Basically, you need to grab a loader and >> cdboot >> from -current and stick them along with the other loader bits on a CD in >> /boot, >> and use '-b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot' as part of your mkisofs command line. >> >> You can then just put the kernel and mfsroot.gz on the root directory of the >> CD. >> Be sure to build the ISO with Rock Ridge support however so the loader can >> find >> all of its files properly. > > I've never messed with -current, will it be back-ported to -stable? I'de > be mighty interested in seeing how it's done, I've been having bad results > with the traditional 'emulated floppy' method. Could you elaborate a bit > more on the details? I will probably backport it to stable once I know that it is working on other people's computers. It's fairly simple, instead of using a floppy image, you have the entire CD available to you in the loader, so you can pull your kernel and any other modules, etc. directly off the CD. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message