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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting from Removeable SCSI Drives
Date: 2 Mar 1996 20:12:24 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) writes:

(error booting off a Syquest)

> Is this because the sd boot device only works with drives that are
> supported by the BIOS (INT 13),

Yes, the bootstrap needs BIOS support in order to load the file
/kernel.

-- 
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. ;-)