Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:43:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Subject: Re: Bootable CD roms Message-ID: <199607231843.UAA11090@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607231437.JAA25282@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at "Jul 23, 96 09:37:09 am"
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As Eric L. Hernes wrote: > I've been looking at the EL-Torito stuff for booting CDs. > Phoenix has a 4 page doc that tells how to make a bootable > CD from an image (http://www.ptltd.com/desktop/makecd.pdf). > Has anyone successfully booted from CD or maybe have > a little information on it? I've also been looking at El Torito, and figured that they've invented a lot of useless crap. :) If i'd give it a try, i would use the emulationless approach. We've got plenty of space on the CD's (there's 32 KB unused space before the cd9660 f/s starts), this should be enough even for an X11-based bootstrap loader. ;) If you want a self-contained CD-ROM bootable file system, you probably need some MFS root version. Btw., i've also downloaded their guide how to make a bootable CD from an image, but dismissed it instantly. I don't think it's worth the Internet bandwidth. Writing a bootloader is certainly the smallest part when designing a CD-bootable BSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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