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Feature #10066

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loader: Add isoboot(5) for booting BIOS systems from HDDs containing ISO images.

Added by Toomas Soome almost 5 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Toomas Soome
Category:
bootloader
Start date:
2018-12-14
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
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Description

FreeBSD update: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=332084

A bit changed (for our needs) description:
This is part of a project for adding the ability to create hybrid CD/USB boot images. In the BIOS case when booting from something that isn't a CD we need some extra boot code to actually find our next stage (loader) within an ISO9660 filesystem. This code will reside in a MBR partition (similar to gptboot(8) from which it is derived) and looks for /boot/loader in an ISO9660 filesystem on the image.

Note the FreeBSD variant is using GPT, not MBR, this is because we do not have tools for the setup, and the use of GPT is questionable IMO (the partition start is nonstandard and there is no backup label). So the tested setup is to use MBR with isoboot stored to x86 boot partition and we can use installboot command to install the boot blocks. We will need etdump (see 9478) for the actual setup, but thats another story. The sample script is available at https://github.com/tsoome/slim_source/commit/a8cdb4a40b57fddaa152ef4a300a57a98b0f1094

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 #1

Updated by Electric Monk almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100

git commit 64f9afd1fd6b5f36ed2c633d603a3b551da6f3d4

commit  64f9afd1fd6b5f36ed2c633d603a3b551da6f3d4
Author: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Date:   2019-01-09T10:46:36.000Z

    10066 loader: Add isoboot(5) for booting BIOS systems from HDDs containing ISO images.
    Reviewed by: John Levon <john.levon@joyent.com>
    Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <af@citrus-it.net>
    Approved by: Hans Rosenfeld <rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org>

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