On Feb 21, 2013, at 2:49 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
> iirc, 9boot doesn't use floppy emulation, but > it might then need cdfs. i haven't tried this, > so someone who has should speak up. :-) It does not have a floppy. You do not need cdfs for loading. The mbr is in the first sector like in a hard disk and it is anotated where the 9load is when creating the filesystem. There is a 9fat file in the iso called bootdisk.img in the root directory. The loader knows enough to get to it, and then gets the kernel. G.