Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:06:41 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD on a bootable CDROM? Message-ID: <XFMail.011126110641.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011126183831.Q47086-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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On 26-Nov-01 Andrew Gordon wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> >> >> 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. > > Do you find that non-emulation booting is actually supported on many > machines? Last time I played with it (about a year ago), of the dozen or > so PCs that came to hand, only one would even recognize it as bootable, > and I was never able to get that one to do any more than crash once it had > loaded the boot image (though this may be that my boot image was no good). It's used by NT 4. :) Any machine that has a 'Designed for Windows NT' or 'Designed for Windows 2000 Professional' logo has to do it. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< 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
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