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Xref: sserve comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:9545 comp.os.linux.development:8652 comp.os.minix:23633 comp.os.mach:3756 comp.periphs:5416 comp.unix.bsd:13866 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:6110 comp.os.386bsd.development:2050 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:4966 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!news.utdallas.edu!corpgate!bnrgate!bmerha64.bnr.ca!bnr.ca!jcyr From: jcyr@bnr.ca (Jean Cyr) 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 Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0 Date: 6 May 1994 17:49:45 GMT Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2qdvvp$r@bmerha64.bnr.ca> References: <2q63q2$927@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <wright.86.000DC700@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> <2q8qqr$q96@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerh366.bnr.ca In article <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu>, newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes: |> In article <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: |> >I think that the linux crowd has had the capability of booting from a |> >CDROM for quite some time... |> |> 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. |> |> -- |> Dan Newcombe newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu |> Clayton State College Morrow, Georgia |> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |> "And the man in the mirror has sad eyes." -Marillion Can't be done. The initial boot stage (reading the boot sector and jumping to it) is handled by your machine's BIOS rom. Currently all BIOS that I've seen look for boot sectors on floppy and hard disk. They never look for CD. How could they ? There's no BIOS support for CD.