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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Booting from CD-ROM (was: 386BSD 1.0 - Stop it, please...)
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development
Date: 18 May 94 22:14:17
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In-reply-to: grog@lemis.uucp's message of 18 May 94 06:45:42 GMT

Hmmm, there may be a problem with this.....

If a boot floppy was written to boot from lots of devices, and a CDROM was
selected, the primary/secondary boot code on the CD is going to have to
figure out where the OS is.  This means that it would need to know how to
interrogate the installation floppy (and find out what was booted).  The
only (IMHO) other strategy would be to take a look at every device on the
machine, searching for the running code.... but we all know how dangerous
this can be.

Brian.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....