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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:00:51 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject:   Re: 2.1.5 install failure: booting from fd0 in stead of sd0
Message-ID:  <199608270700.JAA23701@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199608270634.IAA11231@gvr.win.tue.nl> from Guido van Rooij at "Aug 27, 96 08:34:26 am"

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As Guido van Rooij wrote:

> > Your only chance short of replacing the BIOS is to hack the bootcode
> > on your harddisk so it will never try booting off a floppy again.
> 
> I concluded the same. However, how can it be that a previously installed
> NT on a FAT filesystem does boot?

Their bootstrap is not ``multimedia ready''? :-))  (I.e., it can only
boot off a harddisk.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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