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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting from Removeable SCSI Drives Date: 2 Mar 1996 20:12:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4haa38$af@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <312FAC67.146F@wcupa.edu> <4gr07m$9a@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DnGBK4.8x@slugvine.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) writes: (error booting off a Syquest) > Is this because the sd boot device only works with drives that are > supported by the BIOS (INT 13), Yes, the bootstrap needs BIOS support in order to load the file /kernel. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)