Mike Smith once wrote:
> > A machine with SCSI disks and an ATAPI CD-ROM (no IDE disks) would
> > not boot from 3.3 CD if the SCSI disks are online. It would say:
> > "Read Error" on the upper left of the screen -- where you'd normally
> > see the spinning dash. I suspect, this is a loader's bug :(, which
> > may make it to 3.4 ...
> This is a bug in your BIOS, or your configuration of your system. The
> loader is not running at that point; the 'Read Error' message is boot1
> trying to load boot2 and failing, typically due to a bad value in %dl
> passed by the BIOS.
Well, I figured, it is not the BIOS, who says "Read Error", but did not
know which part of the boot process :) I was hoping to shed some light
on the problem, that was reported shortly after the 3.3RELEASE, when
some people were and some were not able to boot from their CD-ROMs. May
be this (common?) BIOS' brokennes can be worked around in boot1?
> > The workaround is to disconnect the SCSI chain at the boot time and
> > connect it back when the /boot/loader gives the prompt -- the kernel
> > will find the disks nicely.
>
> I assume that the system boots correctly from disk once FreeBSD is
> installed?
Yes.
-mi
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