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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.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting from CDROM Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 07:05:44 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3358D138.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <5j8buk$so5@firenode.ibu.sj.nec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Eric Lunow <eric@powerball.ibu.sj.nec.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39344 Eric Lunow wrote: > > What is the status on support for booting FreeBSD from an IDE CD-ROM ? > The man pages imply this is possible, but the code doesn't seem to work. Boot from as in "boot from CD with the El Torrito extentions" or as in "boot from DOS using the IDE CDROM contents as a springboard?" If it's the latter, it should work if your IDE driver is up to snuff for DOS and you're not running any aggressive memory managers. If it's the former, it depends more on your BIOS support for El Torrito more than anything else. I've never seen an IDE CDROM drive with this feature, actually, and the only thing I personally *know* it works on right now are the newer Adaptec 2940 models (works on my 2940UW). -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.