On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> 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.
I have done this now and it loads the mfsroot.gz file, however I can't
find any man pages or web pages that tell me how to create an mfsroot
file. Any ideas on this?
- Tom
> > - Tom
>
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