> 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?
No. The 3.3-RELEASE issue (which was also detailed here) was another
BIOS bug which prevented the CDROM from being recognised as bootable at
all. If your code is never run, you can't 'work around' anything.
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