From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 21:13:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05599 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr05.primenet.com (tlambert@usr05.primenet.com [206.165.6.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05591 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:13:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA00754; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:12:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709260412.VAA00754@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath To: arg@arg1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gordon) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:12:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andrew Gordon" at Sep 26, 97 00:02:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > This of course means that you can't _boot_ from them anymore, which is > > a royal pain. > > Does it look enough like an ATAPI CD drive that a BIOS with boot-from-CD > support would attempt to boot it? Not really. It looked like a hard drive. As I said in my other message, it's probably intentional to keep down support calls, since MS OS's (other than DOS) can't safely run binaries or swap from removable media. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.