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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:27:56 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Peter C. Wallace" <pcw@mesanet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netpliance Iopener 
Message-ID:  <200004111727.LAA31424@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:21:16 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004111014080.12331-100000@freeby.mesanet.com> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004111014080.12331-100000@freeby.mesanet.com>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004111014080.12331-100000@freeby.mesanet.com> "Peter C. Wallace" writes:
: 	I just got one from Circuit City (of three ordered on March 13)
: The BIOS (SST 256X8 I think) has been epoxied in the socket. This was
: easily done since they did not have to disasemble the IOpener, just open
: the expansion memory door. My guess is that the boot from (external)
: option has ben disabled in the BIOS but I haven't played with it yet. The
: IDE connector is still there.  Does anyone have any experience with
: (post-linux-hack) IOpeners?

The BIOS refuses to boot if there are *ANY* other devices on the scsi
chain.  I think this is in the BIOS, but might be in the QNX boot
loader.

Warner


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