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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:8869 comp.os.minix:23710 comp.unix.bsd:13912 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:6222 comp.os.386bsd.development:2081 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:5168 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.chalmers.se!cd.chalmers.se!tl From: tl@cd.chalmers.se (Torbj|rn Lindgren) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.minix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0 Date: 9 May 1994 01:34:14 GMT Organization: Chalmers Computer Society Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2qk3um$oor@nyheter.chalmers.se> References: <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> <2qdvvp$r@bmerha64.bnr.ca> <2qht16$msc@news.u.washington.edu> <CpHLJE.J5w@calcite.rhyolite.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: haddock.cd.chalmers.se In article <CpHLJE.J5w@calcite.rhyolite.com>, Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote: >In article <2qht16$msc@news.u.washington.edu> tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes: >directly from CDROM using Adaptec 1540's. > >That is between "impossible" and "impractical" on purely practical >grounds. Everyone agrees it would require you to make your CDROM drive >be target 0, No, some adapters can boot from other scsi ID's. I think that the Adaptec 1540C (and newer, ie CF) DOES have this capability. You should be able to enter the SCSI-BIOS setup (Ctrl-A under the boot?) and change the id to boot from. I don't know if this BIOS does allow you to boot from CD-ROMs, but I wouldn't be particularly surprised since the BIOS is really new... >come up from the CDROM. Since most CDROM drives are read-only, that >would make it rather inconvenient to configure the drives (and so forth) >you actually have in your system. I assume that the CD-ROM is meant to be used for the first boot (instead of a boot floppy), and for recovery purpose.