Re: A boot floppy which boots a CD ROM?!
Thanks everyone, problem solved.
But still i like the idea of a floppy which loads a cdrom-driver and
executes the boot-image on the cdrom. Would be quite handy to test
"live-cds".
Bye,
Sebastian
"Geert Stappers" <Geert.Stappers@xs4all.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20030216144010$6a4d@gated-at.bofh.it...
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:29:41PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > #include <hallo.h>
> > Sebastian Schuon wrote on Fri Feb 14, 2003 um 11:22:49PM:
> > > Hi all!
> > > Does anyone happen to know if a boot floppy exists which only loads a
driver
> > > fpr the CD-Rom drive and launches the boot image found there?
> > > My computer (P100) isn't capable to boot via CDrom and i'm to lazy to
create
> > > all these boot floppies.
> > > Anyone got an idea?
> >
> > If your CD-ROM drive is supported by the kernel's drivers,
> > you need only two, boot and root floppies.
>
> ( same information in other words:
> only two floppies,
> one boot floppy with the kernel and one root floppy with a init ram
disk. )
>
>
> Building a kernel with the proper CD-ROM driver
> and putting it on the boot floppy is not a huge project.
>
>
> I'm not sure about your changes on tweaking at boot floppy
> that will use the CD-ROM for getting the init r.d.
>
> Anybody willing the provide this list with hits for that?
>
>
> Geert Stappers
>
>
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