From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] CF boot failure
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 03:05:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d5e48706f4e71211fb09e9a9693fd53@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a77c4323250515950a91c39ef7a93913@plan9.bell-labs.com>
i have some other choices in bios like "removable ATAPI", or "USER". i'll try those.
On Wed Oct 4 22:03:59 CDT 2006, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> from what i remember, 'removeable ide' doesn't always mean
> 'hard disc', sometimes it means 'floppy'. a cd is a 'removeable ide',
> as is an atapi zip drive. in the case of the zip, it can be
> treated by the bios as either a hard disc or a floppy and which it
> is determines what goes in the first sector and what the arguments
> to the bios disc read calls are. it's a crap-shoot, each manufacturer
> deals with them in a different way.
[...]
> the active partition. why, i don't know. can you boot anything
> off this cf card?
good question. i'll try that after the bios parameters.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-05 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-05 2:05 erik quanstrom
2006-10-05 2:15 ` jmk
2006-10-05 2:23 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-05 2:59 ` jmk
2006-10-05 8:05 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-10-05 21:29 ` erik quanstrom
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