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From: oyang@cs.monash.edu.au (Kai Shing O'Yang)
Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
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Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
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Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 11:22:26 GMT
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How about a scsi CDROM drive set at id=0? the SCSI Adaptor bios will
treat the device as a hard drive and tries to read the boot sector from it. 
if there is a way to fool the bios that the CD is actually a H/D, I can't see 
why one can't boot from CD. If I'm wrong, pls correct me.

My $0.02.

Kai
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