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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