trying to use a bootable cd on freebsd.
Julian Elischer
julian at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 15 19:58:52 GMT 2004
I have a cdrom from intel.
it boots into a standalone system for configuring their motherboard.
So far so good.
THe system I need to use it on doesn't have a cdrom.
but it DOES have a USB port and can boot of a USB drive.
It can also boot using PXE.
If I look on the cdrom I see nothing special.
Certainly no flpooy images or such...
How does this boot?
Can I extract something from this I can put on
a USB dongle to make it boot there instead?
Intell suggested I use PXE over the net..
what do I export?
julian at julian:cd /cdrom
julian at julian:ls -la
total 57
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Mar 25 2003 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 1024 Apr 14 04:08 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Nov 14 2002 ACROBAT
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Feb 18 2003 DOCS
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Mar 24 2003 Drivers
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Mar 25 2003 SE7501BR2
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10240 Mar 19 2003 SMaRT
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20480 Sep 5 2002 autorun.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 47 Sep 5 2002 autorun.inf
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Mar 25 2003 diskimag
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6144 Jan 27 2003 images
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6577 Nov 14 2002 linux.htm
julian at julian:cd images
julian at julian:ls -la
total 94
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6144 Jan 27 2003 .
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Mar 25 2003 ..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 43 Mar 28 2002 HG.gif
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1685 Apr 16 2002 additional_documents.gif
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1077 Apr 16 2002 additional_documents_bar.gif
[...]
julian at julian:cd ../diskimag/
julian at julian:ls -a
. XLNT2022.exe
.. XLNT2023.exe
1R1D1DI.EXE fms11_nw.exe
1R1D2DI.EXE fms11_uw.exe
7902_win.exe infinst_enu-4.30.1006.exe
BOOTDISK.EXE lnx6_2r3.exe
FBRV55BD.EXE nw-6_2.exe
NT-6_2_1.EXE raid1026.exe
NT-6_2_2.EXE rh73_13.exe
NW_13.EXE rh80_130.exe
README.TXT sl81_13.exe
SBR2V101.EXE unx-6_2.exe
Win_HR.EXE w2k-6_2.exe
XLNT2021.exe
julian at julian:
If I mount it differently I see:
umount /cdrom
julian# mount -ogens,nojoliet,extatt,norrip /cdrom
julian# ls -l /cdrom
total 48
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Nov 14 2002 ACROBAT
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20480 Sep 5 2002 AUTORUN.EXE
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 47 Sep 5 2002 AUTORUN.INF
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Mar 25 2003 DISKIMAG
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Feb 18 2003 DOCS
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Mar 24 2003 DRIVERS
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Jan 27 2003 IMAGES
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6577 Nov 14 2002 LINUX.HTM
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2048 Mar 25 2003 SE7501BR
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8192 Mar 19 2003 SMART
(just in case there was some hidden file or something)
either way, how can I make this a bootable device of some other form?
is it possible?
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