Subject: CD-booting [was: Re: ISA bus configuration]
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: port-amd64
Date: 04/09/2005 21:57:46
Hi Frank!
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> I totally agree. One problem currently is, that using ACPI will overflow
> the install floppy. So I've postponed switching to ACPI only until the
> install media situation can be fixed (switched to CD only, with a different
> El Torito booting method).
Do you happen to know how far off that different booting method is?
Might be useful to for live CDs too, to have a loader that can boot from
CDs directly, with cloop etc. around the corner, and IIRC someone already
posted something about that working some time ago...
- Hubert
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