Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:34:12 -0400 From: "Theodore K. Milbaugh" <tkmilbaugh@gmail.com> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz>, ted@milbaugh.com, Cristobal Miguelo <cristobalmiguelo2@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD Message-ID: <2861cf0f0410051034602b334d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041005172247.GC3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: <20041004163650.GM3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <20041005042331.14030.qmail@web53801.mail.yahoo.com> <20041005161249.GX3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <2861cf0f041005092714662997@mail.gmail.com> <20041005172247.GC3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
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On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:22:47 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> wrote: > Regarding booting to the CDROM or HD, I'm not sure I understand the > difference between what you are saying and what I said in my previous > reply. How can the CDROM "boot" the machine to the HD? If the machine > reboots the BIOS will take control and boot the machine according to > it's device priority. If there is a bootable CD in the CDROM device, > and the BIOS is set to boot to the CDROM first, how can the machine be > made to boot the HD prior to the CDROM? The only possible way I can > think of would be to have the CDROM booted OS eject the CDROM tray > before reboot, then have the HD booted OS close the CDROM tray again. > > Nathan The code on the CD can load the bootloader code from the HD, and execute it. I know it is possible, because if you boot off of the SuSE 9.1 Installation CD, it has an option to boot to the HD, and it does work.
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