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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot.flp sucks!!! FreeBSD guys. Date: Mon, 17 Jun 96 14:59:30 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4q3rsi$1hs_004@mypc.neosoft.com> References: <4q08o1$jfn@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q1c1a$19c_002@mypc.neosoft.com> <4q1ufg$kku@client2.news.psi.net> <4q2ndn$nam@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.134 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #1 In article <4q2ndn$nam@news1.halcyon.com>, tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) wrote: > >What is sad about FreeBSD IDE CD-ROM support is that the boot kernels on >the CD-ROM are misconfigured, making it fail in a lot of cases where it >should work. Ya got that right! (Is anyone taking note of this?) The system can be daunting enough to new users without having to grapple with problems of this nature. I was just about ready to throw my hands up in disgust/despair and send the package back. Granted, doing a kernel rebuild was quite an educational experience (and exciting as hell when it actually worked!), but this shouldn't be necessary just to make the disc useable. -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/