Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 19:37:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: robin@rucus.ru.ac.za (Robin Lunn) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion. Message-ID: <199507301737.TAA07981@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <199507300943.LAA00244@rucus.ru.ac.za> from "Robin Lunn" at Jul 30, 95 11:43:45 am
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> I think most of you will only be using SCSI devices and so not have come
> accross this problem much. Suggestion: in the install program if the
> installer tries to boot from the SCSI while IDE controller was detected,
> warn them that this is impossible on the IBM PC platform.
It is not that impossible with our boot blocks. You can ask to boot from
hd() instead of sd()/wd(). It will then boot from the SCSI drive. The boot
blocks are to be on the IDE drive of course. Broken PC arch. again...
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995
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