Re: Bootable cdroms (was: Hows Alphadebian doing?)
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 08:35:32PM -0500, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:56:20 -0500
> > From: Andrew Isaacson <adisaacs@mtu.edu>
> > To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Bootable cdroms (was: Hows Alphadebian doing?)
> >
> > The redhat CD-ROMs _can_ be booted from, but it's not as trivial as
> > you might like. You can set up a boot menu item that points to milo
> > and the kernel on the CD. I don't recall exactly what I did, and I
> > don't have access to the machine at the moment, but I certainly did
> > manage to do it once. If anybody's curious I can go dig out the CD
> > and the machine and do it again.
> >
> > I wouldn't recommend this as a method for installation, though, since
> > it was quite painful. If setting up a CD-ROM boot record is the only
> > way to boot from CD, then I think a boot floppy is simpler.
> >
> Hmm... my cdrom was IDE not SCSI... but I don't see how once
> gettin to MILO typing the following was painful:
>
> boot hda:kernels/sx164.gz root=/dev/hda
>
> Much like using the following to boot my system normally off the
> harddrive:
>
> boot sda2:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda2
>
> And from AlphaBIOS you use that as your OSOPTIONS which is passed
> to MILO after it is loaded...
And how do you get to MILO on a bare system? You have to configure a
boot menu option, AFAIK.
Sure, once you're in MILO it's trivial.
-andy
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