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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.bluesky.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot 2.1 from cdrom Date: 8 Apr 1996 10:11:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4kaonu$4ek@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4jn648$20g@clarknet.clark.net> <4k1jre$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4k9d2p$mmg@nntp1.best.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 seventek@nntp.best.com (Caffiene Dependent) writes: > : > i just recently purchased the freebsd 2.1 cdrom set and was wondering > : > if i could somehow boot off of the live file system cdrom that was > : > included. has anybody tried this? thanks... > > : No, it's rather intended to be a reference. In particular, you can > : find the entire source tree unpacked there. > Why not? You should be able to do this on any SCSI card with BIOS > (booting capability.. the type that one can attach a SCSI HD as the > primary disk to). I see no reason that this should not work. When the bootstrap has been designed, BIOS-bootable CD-ROM drives weren't available. So the bootstrap has no internal knowledge about how to find a kernel on a cd9660 file system, it only knows about ufs. (It would be an either/or decision anyway, 7.5 KB don't spend you plenty of space to waste.) This is not to say that it is technically impossible, but it's impossible with the 2.1R ``live file system'' CD-ROM. -- 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. ;-)