Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 19:39:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: duraid@octopus.com.au Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <200305040239.h442dWM7021735@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <3EB47563.58841D21@mindspring.com>
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On 3 May, Terry Lambert wrote: > Matthias Buelow wrote: >> I might also add that there are probably quite a few of us >> who've always been using scsi cdroms, also to keep the machine >> ide-free... and that pc bioses often have extreme trouble booting >> from scsi cdroms, if at all (I've never seen a PC myself where >> this worked), so the only option is floppies, or netboot. > > You need to buy Adaptec controllers; they can boot CDROMs. Yup, but when I tried to go floppy-less in my newest machine, I found that it couldn't boot from the CDROM without a floppy drive being physically installed in the box. Without an actual floppy drive, the BIOS would barf unless I disabled the floppy in the BIOS configuration. When I did that, it also disabled booting from the emulated floppy image on the CDROM :-( Other than that, I haven't had problems booting from SCSI CDROM on those machines that actually have CDROM drives.
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