El 04/05/2010, a las 20:37, Jacob Goense escribió: > On Mon, April 26, 2010 07:22 "Jason Stevens" 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.