Subject: Re: unattended cdboot
To: NetBSD-current <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 07/12/2005 12:26:40
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:05:07PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> I have some unattended wireless routers whose BIOS is
> too dumb or broken to boot from CD-ROM.  I would like to put the cdboot
> primary bootloader onto a floppy disk; the secondary bootloader, kernel,
> and ISO9660 root will go onto the CD-ROM. =20

> Is this something that cdboot will support?

I guess it depends whether the BIOS is sufficiently functional to give
you access to the CDROM via the BIOS equivalent of a block device,
even if it can't properly interpret the filesystem or do el-torrito
disk/floppy emulation.

--
Dan.

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