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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.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: Can freeBSD be installed on a ez135 Date: 7 May 1996 19:50:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4mo9hu$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <318ba121.1466232@news> <Dqzw4o.6By@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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) wrote: > The boot code apparently needs a drive > that can be accessed by the BIOS. Yes, and it doesn't have another chance. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. I assume, for modern SCSI adapters, this might be possible, since you can select which targets should be included into the BIOS int 0x13 emulation and which not. -- 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. ;-)