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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:8870 comp.os.minix:23711 comp.os.mach:3785 comp.os.386bsd.development:2082 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:5169 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!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.os.mach,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc Subject: Re: Booting from CD-ROM, was: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0 Date: 9 May 1994 01:38:33 GMT Organization: Chalmers Computer Society Lines: 11 Message-ID: <2qk46p$oou@nyheter.chalmers.se> References: <2q63q2$927@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <CpE8p7.H@wg.saar.de> <1994May7.211614.28288@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <1994May8.192122.5828@pe1chl.ampr.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: haddock.cd.chalmers.se In article <1994May8.192122.5828@pe1chl.ampr.org>, Rob Janssen <pe1chl@rabo.nl> wrote: >What I don't understand is how you can boot a CD-ROM which is at unit #1 >(for example) while unit #0 is a harddisk. I think that the Adaptec 1540C can boot from other SCSI-ID's (I'm not sure thought). Since the BIOS determines the mapping between drive- numbers and SCSI-ID's this would be possibel to do. Wheter the BIOS does support loading the first block from a CD-ROM and running this I don't know.