Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:07:12 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT (?) booting from CD on Atapi Message-ID: <199912180207.VAA00624@rtfm.newton> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912171804560.13874-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> from Tom at "Dec 17, 1999 06:05:08 pm"
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Tom once stated: =On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: = => Tom once stated: => => =On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: => = => => A machine with SCSI disks and an ATAPI CD-ROM (no IDE disks) would => => not boot from 3.3 CD if the SCSI disks are online. It would say: => => "Read Error" on the upper left of the screen -- where you'd => => normally see the spinning dash. I suspect, this is a loader's bug => => :(, which may make it to 3.4 ... => = => = Don't see a problem with that here. I just booted the 3.3-R CD on => =an ATAPI CD ROM with no other IDE devices, and everything was fine. => => Do you have SCSI disks online at the boot time? = = Yes. Lucky you... Are the SCSI disks otherwise bootable? Is the CD on the primary or the secondary IDE channel? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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