Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:43:26 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Kurt Seel <kseel@utcorp.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD on a bootable CDROM? Message-ID: <XFMail.011126094326.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3BFF0B69.D7DCEA39@utcorp.com>
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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 <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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