Subject: Re: Adding cd9660 support to the i386/amd64 BIOS bootloader
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@NetBSD.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 06/21/2005 11:23:36
On Jun 21, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> Aargh, I misthought there were no cd9660-capable bootloaders in the
> tree
> from http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/projects.html#bootloader :
>
> "Create a BSD-licensed bootloader for CDROM/DVDs that does not use the
> El Torito boot extension, for integration into NetBSD and creation of
> bootable Live- and Install-CDs. This could happen in cooperation with
> the g4u Open Source project."
This is a very x86-centric project. NetBSD has had CD-ROM boot
capability on other platforms for a very long time.
-- thorpej