[Oberon] Booting from CD

[muller at inf.ethz.ch]

mcintosh at vima.austin.tx.us wrote:
> One issue here is  "privilege" to reboot the machine.  The current
> Oberon architecture allows one CD that addresses both
> scenarios.  Bluebottle perfects this technology in the few files
> no.exe + aoside.bin and the bootloader.

Bluebottle and Native handle booting from CD the same way, using
floppy emulation.  noboot.exe and DOS is not involved.

> In a chemistry lab setting, where the faculty have control over the
> computers, the reboot solution may be universally acceptable.  

At the ETH (and probably at many other Universities), Lab PCs are
configured to disallow booting from removable media.  From their
viewpoint this makes sense since booting another system on the
machine gives you complete control over it, and they don't like that :-)

-- Pieter

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Pieter Muller, Computer Systems Institute, ETH Zurich / MCT Lab, Zurich
Native Oberon OS: http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/