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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can I boot from an AHA1542C with an IDE on board?
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From: wongm@ipc6.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 10:04:14 GMT
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In article <289vfk$ks9@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes:
>In article <CE2MtK.HFu@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wgsteven@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Stevens) writes:
>>I have a Adaptec 1542C with a magnetic optical drive attached and my
>>regular 120Meg hard drive, connected to a generic IDE controller.  Is
>>there some way i can boot linux/386bsd derivitive directly from the
>>SCSI controller?  I'd rather not reformat my IDE drive, and set up
>>things that redirect the boot process to a different controller.
>>Any ideas?
>>
>
>If you are using 'new' boot blocks, then you will want to boot from

  What do you mean by new boot blocks ? Where can I get it ? Does it
comes from FreeBSD ? How about the 386bsd to FreeBSD upgrade kit, does
it contain this ?

  Many thanks in advance!

- wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong)
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