I remember when NetBSD did read the label, and yes, we did all whine about
its error message that it couldn't.  :)

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Robert Elz wrote:

>     Date:        Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:53:04 +0200 (MET DST)
>     From:        Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
>     Message-ID:  <200010231753.TAA07774@kaa.cs.few.eur.nl>
> 
>   | I notice, however, that the SCSI cd driver does not bother to read the
>   | actual label from the medium. You could try this:
> 
> Given that it never has, and that a change like that might have
> unexpected side effects (even if just mysterious complaints about
> not being able to read the label, every time someone accesses any
> "normal" CD), perhaps the sparc port should simply have the old
> style boot re-instated for use as the CD boot method (keeping what
> is now there for floppy boot).
> 
> The "floopy image" for the CD boot doesn't have to bear any resemblance
> to a floppy, so it would be OK to make it huge (say 4MB!) so there's
> never going to be a problem fitting everything needed into it (only
> perhaps making it boot in sparcs with only small amounts of RAM).
> 
> kre
>