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From: rh@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de (Ruediger Helsch)
Subject: Re: Booting from CD-ROM, was: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
Message-ID: <1994May9.230934.14613@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
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Organization: Mechanikzentrum, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
References: <2q63q2$927@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <wright.86.000DC700@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> <2q8qqr$q96@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <hastyCpCLny.5q8@netcom.com> <newcombe.142.00141E4A@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> <CpE8p7.H@wg.saar.de> <1994May7.211614.28288@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <1994May8.192122.5828@pe1chl.ampr.org>
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 23:09:34 GMT
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> rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) wrote:
> In <1994May7.211614.28288@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> rh@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de (Ruediger Helsch) writes:
> >It is possible to boot from a CD-ROM. I made a CD with a boot block so
> >it could be bootet from a SCSI CD-ROM
>
> But what did you do to avoid the system booting from a harddisk?

On the hard disk I had the Unifix master boot block which allows to
boot not only from partitions but also from all BIOS devices. I also
tried it by making the CD-ROM SCSI ID 0 and the disk SCSI ID 1.

Ruediger Helsch <rh@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de>