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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 1995 19:37:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        robin@rucus.ru.ac.za (Robin Lunn)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suggestion.
Message-ID:  <199507301737.TAA07981@blaise.ibp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199507300943.LAA00244@rucus.ru.ac.za> from "Robin Lunn" at Jul 30, 95 11:43:45 am

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> I think most of you will only be using SCSI devices and so not have come
> accross this problem much.  Suggestion: in the install program if the
> installer tries to boot from the SCSI while IDE controller was detected,
> warn them that this is impossible on the IBM PC platform.

It is not that impossible with our boot blocks. You can ask to boot from
hd() instead of sd()/wd(). It will then boot from the SCSI drive. The boot
blocks are to be on the IDE drive of course. Broken PC arch. again...
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
      FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995



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