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Date:      Sun, 10 Aug 1997 08:25:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      ron@cts.com
To:        (Joerg Wunsch) <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        (J Wunsch) <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, (Donald Burr) <dburr@POBoxes.com>, (FreeBSD Questions) <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, (FreeBSD SCSI) <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: "El Torrito" (bootable CD-ROM), how to use it?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970810083716.ron@cts.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970810143123.ZM33434@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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Works fine for me. Scared me the 1st time it happened. I was doing an install,
had just reset the computer and waiting for the install diskette to be read.
Suddenly, I am getting messages about a: being reassigned to cdrom and floppy
A: being reassigned to b:,; all too fast to be properly read. Then, to add to
my confusion, I found myself in the install program. I took  the floppy out and
tried again. Worked perfectly. I have an:

ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:13

on an Intel Tuscon board.
Sorry I can't complain...

Ron McDaniels

On 10-Aug-97 j@uriah.heep.sax.de wrote:
>>As Donald Burr wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me what (if anything) I am doing wrong here?  Please
>> e-mail me if possible.  Thanks in advance!
>
>Complain at Adaptec.  That's still in their area if it hangs that
>early.
>
>Btw., i've found BIOS rev 1.23 to be the last stable revision
>regarding El Torito (even though a number of El Torito features are
>missing that have supposed to be fixed in 1.25 or higher).  So it
>wouldn't surprise me to see that they've broken more than the extended
>BIOS int 0x13 support.
>
>El Torito is already a large pile of sh*t, but the BIOS vendor imple-
>mentations of it seem to be even crappier.
>
>-- 
>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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Date: 08/10/97
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