On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:06:37 -0500
Melvin Backus <mbackus at bellsouth dot net> wrote:

> Can anyone point to details on how to boot up a system with a
> non-bootable CD using the generic-pc or other image?  I'd like to be
> able to go without the HD, but the BIOS won't support booting from the
> CD.  I could live with a bootable floppy which then loads the CD
> images, etc.
> 
> Anyone ever try this? Is it even possible?  Sorry for the newbie
> question, but I've got no BSD background.

morphix (bootable linux-live-cd based on knoppix-linux) has a
bootfloppy for machines which don't support booting from cd in the BIOS,
you might want to try that floppy

it uses btmgr : http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/

HTH