Re: [cobalt-developers] Can the RaQ boot from floppy or CD?

[Norbert Bollow <nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx> responded to me:

> > Probably yes. Just to be completely sure - do I understand you
> > correctly that despite the name of this 'OS Restore CD', booting
> > from this BOOTP server does not just blindly restore the OS on
> > the RaQ to its original state, but you can also just boot it and
> > log in a root?
> 
> hrrm, I don't know if that is true.

Do you know someone who would know this?

> It is designed to Restore your OS
> (hence the name).  You can boot from the ROM kernel, but there is no ROM
> based filesystem to mount as a root.  If your root FS is alive, you can
> use teh LCD panel to select boot from ROM.

So there are several ways for booting around a corrupted kernel
image (the ROM kernel and the /usr/games/.doug kernel).

What options are there for booting around a serious problem on
the root filesystem? Suppose e.g. libc.so is corrupted.

Is it possible to boot from a floppy drive or CD-ROM drive that
you'd connect directly to the RaQ? (I notice that the RaQ has
mount points for floppy disks and cdrom, so it's probably
possible to connect such devices to it?)

Warm greetings, Norbert.


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