From: claunia@claunia.com (Natalia Portillo)
Subject: [TUHS] 386BSD on Bochs & Qemu...
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 20:41:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3144E4A4-EF81-4DD5-8F44-C66367616EC0@claunia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69d171f5fd5a71aebb54fec721835024.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl>
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El 04/05/2010, a las 20:37, Jacob Goense escribió:
> On Mon, April 26, 2010 07:22 "Jason Stevens" <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well I've been able to find this much out...
>>
>> The CD has some kind of weird 'live' CD filesystem to it... It would
>> seem that 386BSD 1.0 demanded you have an Adaptec 1542 controller
>> hooked up, and with special roms & whatnot it could 'boot' from the
>> CD...
>> Needless to say, this predates anything like IDE CDROM's or or what
>> most emulators will emulate.
>
> That "Bootable CD" button on the CD cover is just a marketing fact
> AFAICT. I don't have the foggiest how that was done in the pre eltorito
> days on an x86.
SCSI HBAs with integrated boot firmware in BIOS compatible way (that is, trapping INT 13h) can be used to boot ANYTHING in SCSI that behaves like a random access block device.
That means, floppies, LS-120, ZIP, hard disks, CD-ROMs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-04 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-17 5:12 Jason Stevens
2010-04-17 19:10 ` Natalia Portillo
2010-04-18 1:12 ` Jason Stevens
2010-04-24 14:28 ` Jacob Goense
2010-04-24 18:06 ` Jason Stevens
2010-04-24 20:59 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2010-04-25 2:29 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-04-25 9:28 ` Jacob Goense
2010-04-25 17:32 ` Carl Lowenstein
2010-04-25 17:36 ` Jason Stevens
2010-04-26 3:23 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-04-26 5:22 ` Jason Stevens
2010-05-04 19:37 ` Jacob Goense
2010-05-04 19:41 ` Natalia Portillo [this message]
2010-05-04 18:26 ` Jacob Goense
2010-04-26 7:03 ` Wesley Parish
2010-04-26 8:07 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-04-26 9:33 ` Wesley Parish
2010-04-26 17:52 ` Jason Stevens
2010-04-28 2:30 ` Cyrille Lefevre
2010-04-30 7:58 ` [TUHS] UniFlex Jose R. Valverde
2010-04-30 15:38 ` Brad Spencer
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