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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!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.vader.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!slugvine.demon.co.uk!jas From: jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can freeBSD be installed on a ez135 Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 23:15:28 GMT Organization: Home Lines: 19 Message-ID: <Dr40Ls.8v@slugvine.demon.co.uk> References: <318ba121.1466232@news> <Dqzw4o.6By@slugvine.demon.co.uk> <4mo9hu$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: slugvine.demon.co.uk In article <4mo9hu$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >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. Mine's an Adaptec 2842 (VL bus). I don't recall there being such a BIOS option, but I'll have a look next time I reboot. I don't want to make the EZ135 SCSI ID 0, which is currently used by my PC's hard drive, and the CD-ROM on the PC I use the EZ135 with at work, which has an IDE hard drive. -- John Stark (at home) | Cambridge, England jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk | Tel. Cambridge (01223) 573555