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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can freeBSD be installed on a ez135
Date: 7 May 1996 19:50:22 GMT
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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.

-- 
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. ;-)