From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 08:54:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA16665 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 08:54:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com (bacall.lodgenet.com [205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA16655 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 08:54:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA10507; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:52:42 -0600 Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com(204.124.123.250) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma010501; Tue Nov 19 11:52:35 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [10.0.11.30]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA15035; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:53:33 -0600 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.8.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA04299; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:54:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199611191654.KAA04299@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Peter Childs cc: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrom boot? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Nov 1996 01:07:55 +1030." <199611191437.BAA08195@al.imforei.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:54:10 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Childs writes: > > There was a decently long thread on this that is probably in > the archives if you want more pointers/matterial/background to > help you out. I started a thread a couple months back on cdrom booting. Since then I discovered that even though my motherboard's bios indicates that they support cdrom booting, they don't. Plus management has lost interest in booting to CD, for now anyway. I might be able to drum up a little support for it in the future. The gist of that thread was that the El-Torito spec was done in the true pc-hardware style.. a pile of crap. It provides several ways of making a CD bootable, ranging from `total hackery' to `the right way'. Now doesn't that sound familiar wrt specs? ;-) > > Peter > >-- > Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds > Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key > Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object! > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com