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Xref: sserve comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:9636 comp.os.linux.development:8784 comp.os.minix:23674 comp.os.mach:3771 comp.periphs:5443 comp.unix.bsd:13894 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:6183 comp.os.386bsd.development:2067 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:5074 Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.minix,comp.os.mach,comp.periphs,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0 Message-ID: <1994May6.214933.4918@kf8nh.wariat.org> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 21:49:33 GMT References: <2q63q2$927@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> <CpE8p7.H@wg.saar.de> Lines: 23 In article <CpE8p7.H@wg.saar.de>, bof@wg.saar.de (Patrick Schaaf) says: +--------------- | newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes: | | >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. | | How? +------------->8 Put the CDROM on ID 0 and have a boot block on the CDROM which reads the kernel from CDROM? Then handle it like Linux handles booting from bootable rootdisks with ramdisk capability (except that you don't load the entire CDROM into ramdisk for obvious reasons :-). The only sneaky part is that a block on a CDROM is usually 2048 bytes vs. 512 on disks, which could easily surprise the BIOS's boot block loader... and some SCSI adapters may not like the idea of treating a CDROM on ID 0 as a bootable device. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org The FUDs at Microsoft are shouting "Kill The Wabi!"