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- From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling)
- Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.172418.22763@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Aug21.085547.996@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:24:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug21.085547.996@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- marcu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Marc Albert Ullman) writes:
- > Supposedly newer versions of the boot rom have other enhancements like
- > selective support for parity-based memory.
-
- I'm not sure what you mean by "selective support for parity-based memory".
-
- > Also, I was of the impression
- > that you can't boot from the floppy either but must use the floppy to
- > upgrade the hard disk so that it can then read the CD.
-
- You have to insert the floppy and the CD-ROM, then "bfd" at the ROM
- monitor prompt. It boots mach from the floppy, and then continues from the
- CD-ROM. You can then do a BuildDisk, either with or without initializing
- the disk first.
-
- M Carling
- Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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