On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:22:47 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding booting to the CDROM or HD, I'm not sure I understand the > difference between what you are saying and what I said in my previous > reply. How can the CDROM "boot" the machine to the HD? If the machine > reboots the BIOS will take control and boot the machine according to > it's device priority. If there is a bootable CD in the CDROM device, > and the BIOS is set to boot to the CDROM first, how can the machine be > made to boot the HD prior to the CDROM? The only possible way I can > think of would be to have the CDROM booted OS eject the CDROM tray > before reboot, then have the HD booted OS close the CDROM tray again. > > Nathan
The code on the CD can load the bootloader code from the HD, and execute it. I know it is possible, because if you boot off of the SuSE 9.1 Installation CD, it has an option to boot to the HD, and it does work. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
