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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:06:19 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-Current" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Boot of secondary IDE master by 3.0.1 branch 
Message-ID:  <199901130806.AAA02789@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:05:31 CST." <001301be3e4d$c35d2d20$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> 

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> I know that this subject has been beaten to death, but I have to ask a very
> general question.
> 
> Will /boot/loader be able to boot an elf kernel off of the secondary IDE
> master (wd2s1a) by the time the source code branches of on the 15th (date
> ?)? 

Yes, presuming that someone is willing to look at the code and work out 
why it's currently failing.  This situation may require user input; I 
don't recall you responding to my suggestion to set num_ide_disks to -1 
(a very counter-intuitive technique, I agree).

-- 
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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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