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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!mr.net!news.mid.net!news.cjnetworks.com!usenet From: tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how can I boot from "live CDROM"? Date: 1 Jan 1997 10:24:07 GMT Organization: Capital Journal Networks Lines: 39 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ade07$b9i@topeka.cjnetworks.com> References: <32BECE33.15FB@math.tau.ac.il> <59ofu8$brm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5a9e21$huj@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32C8BCC0.4ECD@mcil.comm.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: port6.cjnetworks.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: <QVT/News ver. 4.0> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33420 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!)