From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8d5e48706f4e71211fb09e9a9693fd53@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 03:05:49 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] CF boot failure In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: c534d3c6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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