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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:19:47 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: URGENT (?) booting from CD on Atapi 
Message-ID:  <199912182019.MAA00644@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:21:23 EST." <199912180521.AAA01029@rtfm.newton> 

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> Mike Smith once stated:
> 
> => Ok... So this is a different  one, then... What information do I need
> => to provide for someone to be able to make a "work around" for _it_?
> =
> =It's not clear that you can; it's possible that your setup is just "too
> =broken" for us.
> =
> =A good  start would be  to test  some other supposedly  bootable CDROMs
> =(W96, NT4.0, RedHat 6.1) and see if they work.
> 
> No, I can not afford rebooting this box :( It is a "production" machine.
> Only what I can  get during run-time. But it can boot  from the CDROM if
> there are no disks attached.

Well, without this extra information, it's not possible to diagnose your 
problem let alone work around it.  I'm afraid I just have to pronounce it 
"misconfigured or Truly Broken" (deem wand-waving motion included).


-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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