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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!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsout1.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uw-coco!news-wa16.mdd.comm.mot.com!lego.wes.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: shimonp@usa.net Organization: Motorola Comm. Israel Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 09:21:46 +0800 Message-ID: <32CB0DAA.7317@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> <32C8BCC0.4ECD@mcil.comm.mot.com> <5ade07$b9i@topeka.cjnetworks.com> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account) Nntp-Posting-Host: 145.9.15.84 Lines: 58 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33510 Hello! I *think* you should be able to run directly from your "live" CDROM. Could you try it and to tell us if it works? Pay attention that *my* question was is there possible to "convert" the drive that is not recognized by BIOS as a bootable drive to "bootable", i.e. where I have hardware restrictions on a "bootness". Or, probably, if I can install some tiny code on my hard drive that will boot my live CDROM. Regards, Shimon Pozin mailto:shimonp@usa.net tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com wrote: > > In article <32C8BCC0.4ECD@mcil.comm.mot.com>, Shimon Pozin > <shimonp@mcil.comm.mot.com> writes: > > >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"? > > Now I'm curious. My BIOS has an option to boot from CD and recognizes my > CD-ROM drive natively (nothing like not needing drivers in DOS!), so I > wonder what would happen if I tried to use that second CD that came with > 2.1.0? Sure, I couldn't modify anything, but it could be a neat experiment. > Would I need some kind of filesystem on one of my hard disks, or could I > forgo that since I have 128MB of RAM? > > Thanks, > > Troy Smith (who's still running NT4 for now--bletch!)