Re: Bootable cdroms (was: Hows Alphadebian doing?)
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Andrew Isaacson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:56:20 -0500
> From: Andrew Isaacson <adisaacs@mtu.edu>
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bootable cdroms (was: Hows Alphadebian doing?)
>
> The redhat CD-ROMs _can_ be booted from, but it's not as trivial as
> you might like. You can set up a boot menu item that points to milo
> and the kernel on the CD. I don't recall exactly what I did, and I
> don't have access to the machine at the moment, but I certainly did
> manage to do it once. If anybody's curious I can go dig out the CD
> and the machine and do it again.
>
> I wouldn't recommend this as a method for installation, though, since
> it was quite painful. If setting up a CD-ROM boot record is the only
> way to boot from CD, then I think a boot floppy is simpler.
>
Hmm... my cdrom was IDE not SCSI... but I don't see how once
gettin to MILO typing the following was painful:
boot hda:kernels/sx164.gz root=/dev/hda
Much like using the following to boot my system normally off the
harddrive:
boot sda2:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda2
And from AlphaBIOS you use that as your OSOPTIONS which is passed
to MILO after it is loaded...
Respectfully,
Jeremy T. Bouse
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