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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!ftpbox.mot.com!mothost.mot.com!schbbs!news From: Shimon Pozin <shimonp@mcil.comm.mot.com> Subject: Re: how can I boot from "live CDROM"? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Reply-To: pozin@math.tau.ac.il Organization: Motorola Comm. Israel Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:12:00 +0800 Message-ID: <32C8BCC0.4ECD@mcil.comm.mot.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <32BECE33.15FB@math.tau.ac.il> <59ofu8$brm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5a9e21$huj@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account) Nntp-Posting-Host: 145.9.15.84 Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33393 J Wunsch wrote: > > I wrote: > > > Pozin Shimon <pozin@math.tau.ac.il> wrote: > > > > > Can anybody tell me how can I boot from "live CDROM"? > > > > You can't. (By now.) > > Followup to this: in FreeBSD 2.2, you will be able to use the 2nd CD > as a fixit medium. I've submitted some code for this to Jordan, and > he has committed it yesterday. Sorry, it didn't make it into the BETA > though. > > -- > 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. ;-) Thanks, Joerg, but the question is still open: whether it depends on BIOS? If BIOS does not recognize CDROM as a bootable device if I can boot from it? I am a bit confused. What will do your "some code"? -- Shimon Pozin mailto:shimonp@usa.net