On 17-Oct-01 Thomas Dixon wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> On 16-Oct-01 Thomas Dixon wrote: >> > I'm trying to make a bootable CD using the cdboot program that come with >> > freeBSD in /sys/i386/boot/cdboot. The computer I'm trying to do this on >> > definately boots other CDs as it has booted several other CDs. However >> > using a CD I've made using mkisofs and cdboot it gives the error; >> > >> > Your BIOS int 0x13 extensions seem to be disabled. >> > It's impossible to boot a CD-ROM without them. >> > (BIOS int 0x13 fn 0x4b01 yielded error 1) >> > >> > I'm using an Asus P5A motherboard, there appears to be no way to enable >> > the int 0x13 extensions in the BIOS and there is nothing in the manual >> > that refers to these. >> > >> > Any ideas why this error is coming up or how to fix it? >> >> Don't use cdboot or cdldr, they don't qutie work yet. :( >> >> Instead, make a floppy image and use that to boot. >> > I've tried this and I couldn't figure out the syntax for loader.rc to load > the file system from the cd-rom, any ideas?
You don't really load the filesystem from the CD-ROM as the loader can't read a CD-ROM right now. Instead you use a memory filesystem on the floppy image and use that to boostrap yourself so you can mount the CD. > - Tom -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
