From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 17 17:34:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BE01530C; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:34:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 11z8l8-000IJL-00; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:34:10 -0800 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:34:06 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: stable@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT (?) booting from CD on Atapi In-Reply-To: <199912172042.PAA01558@misha.cisco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > This may be a bit late :-| > > A machine with SCSI disks and an ATAPI CD-ROM (no IDE disks) would not > boot from 3.3 CD if the SCSI disks are online. It would say: "Read > Error" on the upper left of the screen -- where you'd normally see the > spinning dash. I suspect, this is a loader's bug :(, which may make it > to 3.4 ... Don't see a problem with that here. I just booted the 3.3-R CD on an ATAPI CD ROM with no other IDE devices, and everything was fine. Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message