Terry Lambert wrote:
> "M. Warner Losh" wrote:
> > : Think "CDROM install".
> >
> > Dude, what crack are you smoking? How many times to we have to tell
> > you. We have a boot loader that knows how to read the kernel from the
> > cdrom or scsi or whatever. IT is a tiny increment to also load
> > additional modules at that time that support those devices. What's
> > the real issue?
>
> So, given that the install from a CDROM boots from a floppy
> image that's faked up by the CDROM drive BIOS, and the image
> doesn't include the full boot loader, how exactly is it that
> the partial boot loader code acts like the full bootloader
> code for accessing the CDROM to load the modules necessary
> to access the CDROM?
Not true anymore. release/i386/mkisoimages.sh:
bootable="-b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot"
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1136 Jul 5 02:20 /boot/cdboot*
I believe we still use the old way on RELENG_4, but the support all got
MFC'ed. Several release candidates used cdboot for better testing exposure.
Cheers,
-Peter
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