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From: eric@powerball.ibu.sj.nec.com (Eric Lunow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Booting from CDROM
Date: 18 Apr 1997 17:44:51 GMT
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What is the status on support for booting FreeBSD from an IDE CD-ROM ?
The man pages imply this is possible, but the code doesn't seem to work.

Eric Lunow
eric@ibu.sj.nec.com