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From: jcyr@bnr.ca (Jean Cyr)
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Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
Date: 6 May 1994 17:49:45 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
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References: <2q63q2$927@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <wright.86.000DC700@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> <2q8qqr$q96@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu>
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In article <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu>, newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:
|> In article <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
|> >I think that the linux crowd has had the capability of booting from a
|> >CDROM for quite some time...
|> 
|> I think you missed the point.  The idea was you plop the CD in the drive, and 
|> boot from that - not from the hard drive - not from a floppy drive, purely 
|> from the CD drive.
|> 
|> --
|> Dan Newcombe                    newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu
|> Clayton State College           Morrow, Georgia
|> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|> "And the man in the mirror has sad eyes."       -Marillion

Can't be done. The initial boot stage (reading the boot sector and jumping to it)
is handled by your machine's BIOS rom. Currently all BIOS that I've seen look
for boot sectors on floppy and hard disk. They never look for CD. How could they ?
There's no BIOS support for CD.