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To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
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Subject: Re: kernel panic if using SCSI CDROM as root device 
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From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <20011115154058.A35230@panzer.kdm.org>, "Kenneth D. Merry" writes:
>
>You'd figure this stuff would work, since the CD installation process boots
>off of a CD.

The installer uses an MFS/MD root, so it's not the same. This is
not a recent problem; I'm pretty sure that I have seen this at
least as far back as FreeBSD 4.1 when using a CDROM root filesystem
with a SCSI CDROM drive. It's one of those bugs that I never got
around to investigating since the CDROM drives I use are almost
exclusively ATAPI, and a CD root works fine for ATAPI drives.

Ian

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