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To: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@scitec.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Booting 3.0-RELEASE in a non-standard setup
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 16:04:56 +1100."
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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:52:36 -0800
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> If you press any key the /boot/loader file will be started
> and it won't work properly in the case where the BIOS
> drive number doesn't match the wd drive number. So never
> press a key, let the boot block load the kernel directly.
It will actually work in any case where the bootstrap works; you
may need to set $num_ide_disks to correct the offset in the same
fashion that you set the X: parameter.
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