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From: tl@cd.chalmers.se (Torbj|rn Lindgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.minix,comp.os.mach,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: Booting from CD-ROM, was: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
Date: 9 May 1994 01:38:33 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Computer Society
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Message-ID: <2qk46p$oou@nyheter.chalmers.se>
References: <2q63q2$927@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <CpE8p7.H@wg.saar.de> <1994May7.211614.28288@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <1994May8.192122.5828@pe1chl.ampr.org>
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In article <1994May8.192122.5828@pe1chl.ampr.org>,
Rob Janssen <pe1chl@rabo.nl> wrote:
>What I don't understand is how you can boot a CD-ROM which is at unit #1
>(for example) while unit #0 is a harddisk.

I think that the Adaptec 1540C can boot from other SCSI-ID's (I'm not
sure thought). Since the BIOS determines the mapping between drive-
numbers and SCSI-ID's this would be possibel to do. Wheter the BIOS
does support loading the first block from a CD-ROM and running this I
don't know.