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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: biosboot
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Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:33:26 GMT
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In article <325AB2C0.167EB0E7@border.com>, Michael Wozniak <mwozniak@border.com> writes:
> I was wondering if many people are using the real mode BIOS bootstrap
> loader (biosboot & bootbios) and if so, can you comment on your
> successes and problems encountered?
I'm using it to load BSD/OS 2.1 from a system disk that's on SCSI ID 9 on
a wide SCSI adapter (BusLogic BT-958D) and it works fine. If you need to boot
from a SCSI unit other than 0 (at least on the aha/bha bootstraps) you'll need
the BIOS boots.
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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